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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!karl From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Subject: New hints for people having trouble booting 386BSD 0.1 Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:57:53 GMT Message-ID: <1992Aug21.055753.5117@NeoSoft.com> Lines: 24 A couple of booting successes tonight: A 50 MHz 486 with UMC chipset and AMI BIOS A fairly old 33 MHz 386 with Chips chipset and AMI BIOS I was having a lot of trouble booting these guys. The 486 would hang at the probe, the 386 would just spin and never do anything. Well, the 386 had a scratchpad RAM option, it could be "type 1", using stack at 0:300, or "type 2", which said "1K DOS". Setting it to "1K DOS" made it go. Similarly the 486 had an option on where to put the type 47 disk definition RAM area (they're both SCSI systems) at 0:300 or "1K DOS", so they're doing the same thing but the newer BIOS is more descriptive. Anyway, once again, 1K DOS and it launched. Boot the fixit disk, pull the OS down over ethernet and, voila, 100,002 386BSD systems ;-) -- -- Email info@NeoSoft.com for info on getting interactive Internet access. You will now awaken feeling relaxed and refreshed, remembering everything you've read except the details of the Omega contingency plan.