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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!gumby!destroyer!terminator!news
From: pauls@icecreambar.css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Subject: 386bsd booting / partitioning problem
Message-ID: <1992Sep8.203515.19430@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
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Reply-To: pauls@umich.edu
Organization: University of Michigan
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:35:15 GMT
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HERE IS A QUESTION FROM A COMPUSERVE USER...

If anyone can answer this, post response here or email it to me and
I will forward it.

* * *

I'm having a problem with the 386BSD "Tiny" install.  The install
appears to work correctly, but when I boot off the hard drive, I get the
following messages:"Copying RAM area to device 1, ofsset 0"
"Press any key to abort Bad Device" and then the system reboots.  I won't  
swear
to the word-for-word accuracy of the messages, because they are only  
visible
for a fraction of a second.  I've got a 486/50 with a 124M IDE (Maxtor).   
It is
in two 62M partitions at the moment, and is listed as a user-defined drive  
with
the specs that Maxtor recommends.  Any ideas on how I can get around this
problem?