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- From: paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen)
- Subject: [386BSD Install] endless reboot cycle, help please
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.175520.3613@tfs.com>
- Summary: unable to boot from hard disk
- Keywords: 386bsd install reboot
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:55:20 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- Grumble.
-
- So I made an install and a fixit disk from cgd's binary images months
- ago. Just the past week I finally managed to get the bin dist loaded
- onto floppy, so I thought, "now is the time to install."
-
- I booted the install floppy. I typed 'install'. Everything appeared
- to work fine. I hit return to reboot off of the hard disk. Endless
- reboot cycle. It took me a few dozen cycles to copy it down, but
- here is what appeared on the screen:
-
- vm fault ( fe071cdc, a49c2000, 3, 0 ) -> 1
- type c, code 2
- trap type 12, code 2, eip = fe025dff, cs = fdbf0008, eflags = 10203, \
- cr2 a49c2a58, cplo
- panic: trap
-
- The operating system is saving a copy of RAM to device 1, offset 0
- (hit any key to abort) amount left to save [MB] -- area improper,
- system rebooting.
-
- The syntax may be a bit off, but the preceding is what my machine
- complained of. I seem to recall some mention of an endless reboot
- cycle before, but it didn't seem to apply to my machine.
-
- Here are the specifics:
- no-name motherboard, AMI bios, 386-25, 8 Meg RAM, no co-processor,
- MFM controller and two hard disks, one (3.5) floppy, 4-port serial
- card (com 1), multi i/o card (com 2), CGA adapter (HP, ancient, 2
- board solution), wangtek QIC-36 controller, 1/4" tape drive, Covox
- Speach board. I think that's it. I haven't had the opportunity
- yet to pull all but the most essential components and try again.
- Is this something that is likely to prove useful?
-
- Does anyone have any suggestions for me? What should I do next?
- Pull half of the RAM? Disconnect the second hard drive? Get a new
- install image? Install by hand?
-
- Thanks in advance,
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