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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!super!rminnich From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) Subject: Re: 386BSD & COMPAQ 486/33 Message-ID: <1992Sep8.023138.25145@super.org> Sender: news@super.org (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: super Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD) References: <1992Sep7.112452.5403@csd.uch.gr> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:31:38 GMT Lines: 30 In article <1992Sep7.112452.5403@csd.uch.gr> kanagn@ikaros.cc.uch.gr (Kostas Anagnostakis) writes: >I tried to boot 386BSD on a COMPAQ 486/33 / 4 MB RAM but it didn't work. >It didn't even get to the "386BSD etc" notice. Has anybody out there gone >into the same problem ? as things currently stand compaq's won't boot it at all. any compaq. I only have talked to one person who has gotten it to go, one compaq in a room full of compaqs. nobody knows why. I looked into it but don't have time to fool with it; I have no documentation on the machine and hate debugging in that mode when I know it is unnecessary. I am going to drop a Kbuck on bsdi and hope they have something that works. One thing you could try that has been recommended to me is to junk the COMPAQ ROMS and replace them with AMI roms. If the bsdi path doesn't work I am going to rip the compaq motherboards out of the 3 deskpro/25 machines I have, replace them with cheap clone motherboards that work, and take the compaq motherboards out for a little target practice. Should be fun. Should cost < $1500. Cheap advice: if you are looking for a machine to run 386bsd, don't get a compaq of any stripe. ron -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- satisfaction: the feeling you get when you | rminnich@super.org run newfs on a DOS disk so you can install 386BSD.| (301)-805-7451 Now if only I could do this to AIX on the RS/6k ...|