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From: Granville.Moore@purplet.demon.co.uk (Granville Moore)
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pipex!demon!purplet!Granville.Moore
Subject: 386BSD: problems with Del
Organization: FidoNet node 2:252/305.0 - The Purple Tentacle, Reading
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:24:00 +0000
Message-ID: <25.2ACA1701@purplet.demon.co.uk>
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On 22 Sep 1992, You said to All:

JM>   Dell 450SE, 486 50Mhz, EISA, 24 Meg RAM
JM>   Adaptec 1742 SCSI controller
JM>   WD 8013W 10baseT ethernet

JM>   when i boot the Fixit disk (with debug stuff) i get:

JM>   [ lots of what looks like disk sector debugging ]
JM>   [ 0.1 headers ]
JM>   pc0<color> ...
JM>   com1 ...
JM>   com2 ...
JM>   fd0 ...
JM>   as0 ...
JM>   we0 ...
JM> npx0 at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa (???)
JM>   changing root device to fd0a

JM>   it then hangs, or at least appears to do nothing.

JM>   any ideas?

I get exactly the same results with a Texas Instruments 1300 (386/dx) system.
Currently with MDA (ugh!, but itwas a terminal server...), just about to
upgrade to VGA.

Likewise,  any ideas?

I would greatly appreciate copies of any suggestions that are e-mailed to you,
or suggestions from anyone else reading this.

Despite what may appear in the header to this posting, my e-mail address is:
      gvm@Nemesys.demon.co.uk

Regards

Granville


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