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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!rocksanne!quasar!randy From: randy@quasar.wrc.Xerox.COM (Randy Stegbauer) Subject: Booting Tiny 386BSD on a Dell 310 Motherboard Message-ID: <1992Dec8.205446.726@spectrum.xerox.com> Sender: news@spectrum.xerox.com Reply-To: stegbauer.wbst129@xerox.com Organization: Xerox, Rochester, NY Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1992 20:54:46 GMT Lines: 20 Has anyone had any luck booting the BSD Tiny Kernel floppy with a system similar to the one described below? When I attempt to boot, the system hangs with the floppy light on and everything else seems dead...nothing on the screen...no apparent floppy activity. - Dell 310 Motherboard 80386, 20MHz (The processor is the sigma sigma version.) - 80387 FPU - 4 MBytes of 80 ns SIMMs - Adaptec 1542B SCSI Controller; jumpers set to factory defaults - Seagate 338 MByte SCSI Drive - EGA 256KByte Video Controller, with builtin Bus Mouse connnector. - 1.44 and 1.2 MByte Floppies - 2 COM ports and 1 Parallel port builtin to the motherboard. - Phoenix BIOS Version 1.10 B00, dated January 1988 My processor is stamped with the double sigmas, so that should not be the problem. The Installation Notes indicate that it should work with an EGA. (I know a VGA is required for X, but I am not interested in that right now.) Also note that I do NOT have an ethernet card, in case that matters. The IRQs and DMA ports for the Adaptec controller and COM ports are what the notes require. Thanks for your help,