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From: Selgarv@net5a.io.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: install probs.....amptron486 and adaptec2742
Date: 15 Jan 1995 13:45:30 GMT
Organization: Internex Online, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (416 363 3783)
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first of i posted something like this on sat/14 but today it's gone. what ate it, or was there a problem with my post?
anyway i have a 486DX/50 with "hint" chipset and adaptec 2742 scsi controller. hdrives are olivetti/234meg as the primary and quantum/245meg as the secondary drive. nec cdrom and 16 megs of ram.
the boot process starts and everything is recognized (the only error message is on device pas0 which has an address conflict with the adaptec controller,so pas0 is not probed) then on the line "switching root to fd0c" it hangs.
i am running dos,OS/2 Warp,Linux just fine and am using OS/2 boot manager. the "hint" chipset is not a true eisa chipset in that it does not support level irq triggers so the adaptec 2742 is configured for edge triggering. i am won-
dering if this is part of the problem. is bsd more particular about this than other os's.
thanx elgar vaivars - elgarv@io.org