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- From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
- Subject: Just hangs during boot floppy -- is EISA the problem?
- Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:11:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <BznD77.L6B@rex.uokhsc.edu>
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- My friend has a 486-33MHZ 16 MB EISA/FAST SCSI (AMI motherboard
- and SCSI adapter). It sounds like the machine to run UNIX on. Well,
- I tried running both 386BSD and LINUX and they both seem to die
- in the same places -- around the disk drive stage. 386BSD stops
- right after it is changes root device to the floppy. LINUX stops
- right after it figures out that my SCSI adapter is Adaptec 1542 compatible.
- Is there any hope? I would like to get his machine up on UNIX
- (I would do mine, but my machine needs disk space...), but I don't want
- to install SCO (which is sitting right next to me...boxes of floppies
- and I don't get source.) Any suggestions?
-
- It doesn't appear the I can disable the EISA stuff. Are we out of
- luck?
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- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen
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- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen
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