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From: stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr (Minsung Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! 950412-SNAP won't boot
Date: 21 May 1995 06:31:07 GMT
Organization: KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of science and Technology)
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Junichi Kurokawa (jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp) wrote:
: >>>>> "M" == Minsung Kim <stair@abel.kaist.ac.kr> writes:

:     M>     The problem is that my machine doesn't complete boot
:     M> procedure.  It displays usual "changing root device to fd0c" with
:     M> non-blinking cursor, then it hangs.  If I try a warm reset, it
:     M> panics.  (Page fault)

: Does your motherboard let you boot DOS?

: If it does, try disabling your secondary cache and try FreeBSD.  If it
: boots, then the motherboard has got a widely known bad-match against
: Net/FreeBSD.  I vaguely recall that these two operating systems imply
: that you've got a write-back cache working properly, as opposed to linux
: and DOS defaulting to slower write-through cache.  Hence the above
: technique to try.

: Regards,
: junichi

: --
: Junichi Kurokawa
: Enterprise Networking Development Division
: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Thank you very much, junichi.  It really helped a lot!

--  Stair, alive in their sweet memory

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Minsung Kim <stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr>	Undergraduate CS Dept., KAIST