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- From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] boot disk does absolutely nothing on gateway 4dx33v
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.182955.18256@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Montana State University
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:29:55 GMT
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- In article <C1HowF.20x@rot.qc.ca> captain@rot.qc.ca (Andrew Webster) writes:
- >Timothy Miller (tim@news.Brown.EDU) wrote:
- >> I have acquired the boot disk image for 386bsd, and no matter what I try,
- >> when my system starts up, it displays all the bios messages, and then hangs
- >> with the floppy drive light on. I have tried waiting for half an hour (just
- ...
- >> of the bootables. I know I'm installing the disk image correctly because
- >> doing the same thing with the linux disk images works perfectly (in fact linux
- >> successfully installs and runs fine, without my even needing to turn anything
- >> off (except gcc dies unless I turn external caching off)).
-
- Having to turn off external cache doesn't sound too good...
-
- >
- >Rather intteresting... I have the same problem, different hardware!
- >Here's the scoop:
- >386DX-20 no cache, 4MB RAM, Logitech EGA, 80MB IDE, locks up on floppy boot
- >Comments anyone?
-
- Have both of you tried the NEW bootables, located at
- agate.berkeley.edu:~unofficial/patch-kit/*.fs-pk-0.2 ?
-
- If not, give them a try. There are some boot fixes in them that
- allow MOST machines to boot, although there is still some timing
- problems with recognizing certain IDE drives because of non-standard
- controllers.
-
- Also, if you can't get it to boot after trying the new boot images,
- try removing all of the non-necessary hardware from your machine.
- I had a problem when I first installed 386BSD, and it turned out to
- be a mis-configured SERIAL/GAME/PARALLEL card which worked fine under
- DOS but 386BSD needed it configured correctly.
-
- I have also seen problems with SoundBlaster's, and other non-standard
- cards..
-
-
- Nate
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