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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Problems with getting 386BSD 0.1 to run Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:19:45 GMT Message-ID: <1992Oct12.061945.530@kithrup.COM> Sender: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Lines: 32 My apartmentmate just bought a 486 machine, and we've been trying to get 386bsd 0.1 to boot. In the meantime, I also tried to get it running on my machine, and it failed there, also. The machines and symptoms are: his) 486DX, 33MHz, 8MBytes RAM, 64KBytes external cache, Micronics motherboard with VL-bus IDE hard- and floppy-controllers. Standard SVGA card, and a WD80013 ethernet card (which is irrelevent, as the same behaviour results whether or not we have the card in). Phoenix BIOS. The behaviour is that the machine boots, and tries to read the floppy; the light comes on and stays on, but, after a while, the disk stops seeking, and we can open the drive door and everything. It is not a happy camper. mine) 386DX, 25MHz, 8MBytes RAM, I forget about the cache, noname clone motherboard. RLL hard-disk controller, Adaptec 1542B with floppy disabled, noname "i/o card" (with serial and floppy, maybe the parallel port too). (It's been a long timem since I really looked at what was inside this machine, obviously :).) WD80013 Elite16 Combo card. AMI BIOS. Behaviour is that the machine, instead of hanging, jumps into the AMI extended setup and configuration code, although it is hung, and ignores keyboard input. We're much more interested in getting his machine to run 386bsd, since it's "the new toy." Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks... -- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around." -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.