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- From: rimkus@netcom.com (Mike Rimkus)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD Kernel hang problems on Gateway 2000 486/DX2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.021145.3727@netcom.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 02:11:45 GMT
- References: <9212221819.AA18464@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu> <1992Dec22.232621.2398@cs.cornell.edu>
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- cchase@cs.cornell.edu (Craig Chase) writes:
- > DS1437@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu writes:
- >
- >> I am trying to install 386bsd on a GateWay 2000 486 50Mhz DX/2. The
- >>system has a 205 Mb IDE Drive. I can run the install disk fine, however
- >>when I boot off the hard drive the screen looks like this:
- >> ....
- >>PANIC: Cannont mount root
- >>trap type 12 code=fe060000 eip=fe01278a cs=8 eflags=10282 cr2 14 cpl a
- >
- > I had this problem too (I also have the gateway). The problem seemed to go away
- > when I truned off the primary cache. I can't explain it. Furthermore,
- > yesterday I turned it back on (with a patched kernel) and had no problems.
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- I was unable to boot Tiny 386BSD until I turned off my caches on my Gateway
- 486DX2-50. But now I run with caches turned on, no problems. Can't explain it.
-