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From: yas@hpycla.kobe.hp.com (Yasuyuki Suzuki) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 07:12:31 GMT Subject: Re: Endless boot cycle- suggestions? Message-ID: <45240001@hpycla.kobe.hp.com> Organization: HP Kobe Systems Operation, Kobe, Japan Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!hpcc05!hpyhde4!hpycla!yas Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd References: <Aug.14.12.34.42.1992.8037@action.rutgers.edu> Lines: 29 / hpycla:comp.unix.bsd / armhold@action.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) / 1:34 am Aug 15, 1992 / armhold> "Press any key to reboot from HD". I do, and the machine armhold> goes into an endless boot cycle. When it tries to read the bootstrap armhold> code from the HD it does a hard reset, memory check, etc, and then armhold> loops again. This is exactly the same situation as mine! The following is my configuration. HI-Tech USA ISA-486/33 w/ AMI BIOS and SiS Chipset 8MB RAM Adaptech 1542B HP2213A 633MB SCSI Disk IBM DOS 5.0 I removed all cards (i.e. IDE/FDD,1P/2S/1G) except Video (Diamond SpeedStar Plus) and 1542B from AT bus and re-installed 386BSD from the FDD controlled by 1542B. But the situation was not changed. Then, I tried to install to IDE disk (Conner CP30104H) and the 386BSD was successfully booted from the hard drive. So, I think our problems are related to disk controlers or hard disks. -- Yasuyuki Suzuki yas@kobe.hp.com +81-78-993-2846 (JAPAN) Client Technology Lab., Kobe Systems Operation, Hewlett-Packard