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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] on HP Vectra?
Date: 27 Nov 1992 21:48:02 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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I have a HP Vectra 486 on which I would like to run 386BSD.  "Out of
the box," this does not work.  When I boot the Tiny 386BSD kernel off
the hard disk, it just hangs.

FYI, hardware:

  HP Vectra 486, 25 MHz
  HP Vectra internal tape drive
  HP Super VGA
  HP ThinLan Ethernet controller
  HP Mouse
  8 MB RAM, 320MB ESDI disk

Given that I can boot off the floppy, my first suspicion is that the
bootstrap code simply doesn't work for ESDI drives.

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