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- From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Just hangs during boot floppy -- is EISA the problem?
- Message-ID: <921223523@jester.GUN.de>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 00:30:10 GMT
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- ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:
- > 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.
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- Try to disable all cachable areas in the cmos-setup. I heard a lot of
- problems with these cache-areas set on.
-
- Michael
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