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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA290 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:01:29 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!gemini.oscs.montana.edu!osynw From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: [386BSD] boot disk does absolutely nothing on gateway 4dx33v Message-ID: <1993Jan29.180815.16698@coe.montana.edu> Keywords: n Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Montana State University References: <1993Jan21.221451.10039@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <C1LKFw.DLt@rot.qc.ca> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 18:08:15 GMT Lines: 18 In article <C1LKFw.DLt@rot.qc.ca> captain@rot.qc.ca (Andrew Webster) writes: >A Wizard of Earth C (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: >> In article <1jkdpeINNkeg@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> tim@news.Brown.EDU (Timothy Miller) writes: >> >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 >[stuff deleted]... > >> This is the "Compaq boot problem". You can get the patch from the file >> ~/terry/patch.bootblock.fdboot.c on ref.tfs.com, download a Compaq >> dist.fs or fixit,fs, or go to a news archive and get the article Or get the patchkit-0.2, and the new bootables which contain this fix. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | A hacker w/out a home. work: (406) 994-5991 | Keeper of the Unofficial 386BSD Bug Report home: (406) 586-0579 | Please send bugs and/or fixes you find.