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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!sun.sirius.com!not-for-mail From: sherrod@lithium.asyluminc.com ((null)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: netbsd 1.1 i386 install help needed Date: 1 Aug 1996 17:19:49 GMT Organization: Asylum Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4tqovl$mib@sun.sirius.com> References: <4torvu$sk6@sun.sirius.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: transporter.halestorm.com <sherrod@lithium.asyluminc.com> wrote: > dumping to dev 201 offset 0 > dump area unavailable > rebooting >And then the machine reboots. Anyone know what >the problem might be? First, thanks for everyone's help. Andrew Wheadon <andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de> suggestion turned out to be the problem: >Looks like problems with your mainboard to me. >Try setting BIOS-defaults i.e. turning off caches, >and disabling every nifty feature, enhanced setting >it has. I also recreated the kernel copy and install disks. After turning off all BIOS options, things worked fine. -- Bruce