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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tnosoes!tom
From: tom@izf.tno.nl (Tom Vijlbrief)
Subject: Re: 386BSD & COMPAQ 486/33
Message-ID: <1992Sep11.134947.17299@izf.tno.nl>
Organization: TNO Institute for Perception
References: <1992Sep7.112452.5403@csd.uch.gr> <1992Sep8.023138.25145@super.org> <92252.095938HEUER@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:49:47 GMT
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Stephan Heuer <HEUER@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE> writes:

>I have 386BSD 0.1 running on a Compaq Deskpro 386/20 with 387,
>ethernet and 60MB hard disk. 0.1 refused to boot, but I had 0.0 running
>so I used the 0.0 boot block. I just copied the first 8k from the 0.0
>boot disk to the 0.1 boot disk and voila ... I have *not* changed my 0.0
>disklabel on the hard disk!

This procedure indeed starts the 0.1 kernel from the 0.1 boot floppy,
but the kernel crashes after writing the fist screen of messages.....


Tom