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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Still trying to install...
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In article <1993Jan21.092014.15598@Princeton.EDU> bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers) writes:
>> i486/40 ISA, 8MB RAM, 44.7 MB Seagate ST-157A IDE
>> Microid Research BIOS (MR BIOS)
>
>Okay, I finally got things to boot (now I can go get the rest of the system)
>What I had to do:
> Disable external cache
> Set cold-boot delay to 1 second or greater
>
>While I am glad I can get it to work, this is somewhat annoying that I have to
>disable the cache. Also, I would like to know _why_ these were problems?
Most likely, the cache overlays an area used for a disk I/O. This is a
*terrible* problem with bus-mastering DMA controllers (not a "problem"
suffered by IDE, I think).
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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