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- From: kvr@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Kerst V. Raden)
- Subject: Help needed: COHERENT 4.0 won't boot
- Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:39:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <kvr.725917148@mcshh.hanse.de>
- Sender: news@mcshh.Hanse.DE (News Administrator)
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- Hello, COHERENT wizards
-
- sorry if the following problem has already been tackled in previous
- postings or an faq. I just purchased COHERENT 4.0 and have to decide
- quickly if I will keep or return it.
-
- My problem is as follows:
- When I try to boot from disk #1, I get the boot prompt, and type
- "begin". Then I get the messages
-
- Loading COHERENT.
-
- Loading COHERENT data.
-
- Please wait...
-
- There are several seconds of floppy disk activity, then the cursor
- jumps to the upper left corner of the screen and the system is dead
- with the floppy light still on.
-
- I have tried the obvious things like changing wait states, bus speed
- etc. but to no avail. If upper memory relocation is switched off "5a"
- is written to the upper right corner of the screen before the system
- dies. All other changes in the setup had no effact at all.
-
- Has anybody else experienced and successfully overcome this problem?
- Any help is **VERY** much appreciated. I would like to join the COHERENT
- user community soon.
-
- My system has the following configuration:
-
- Motherboard with AMD 386DX/DXL, 40 MHz, 4MB RAM, Symphony chipset,
- AMI BIOS
- GENOA VGA with Tseng ET 4000 chipset and 1 MB RAM
- IBM 8503 monochrome monitor
- Multi I/O board (com1, com2, lpt1, fd, hd) with Inboard W83757F chip
- Seagate ST3144A hard disk
- 3,5" floppy
- Cherry MF2 keyboard
-
- My COHERENT is V 4.0.1A.
-
- BTW: I have SCO UNIX V3.2 running on a machine with the same configuration
- for several months without problems. I tried the emergency boot disks
- on this machine and got SCO up. I also ran several tests with CHECKIT
- without error reports.
-
- Thanks in advance
-
- Kerst
-
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- Kerst van Raden kvr @ mcshh.hanse.de
- Hamburg, Germany
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