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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1 on a AMD468DX4-100
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Date: 10 Apr 1996 14:09:14 GMT
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domand@mail.direct.ca writes:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD onto a 486DX4-100 on a 
> machine at work.  When I insert the boot disk with the 
> installation kernel in the machine, it gets to the boot prompt 
> but as soon as the kernel starts to load the machine does a hard 
> reset.

What's ``starts to load'' for you?  You mean ``starts to run'' (i.e.,
the ``twiddle'' stopped turning)?

I suspect memory problems.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j