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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1089 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:25:46 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!sol.ced.utah.edu!klaus From: klaus@ced.utah.edu (Klaus Biggers,MEB 3140b,581-6499) Subject: Re: [386bsd] Help!! dist-floppy dosen't boot Message-ID: <1993Feb10.195805.6850@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Reply-To: klaus@ced.utah.edu Organization: Center for Engineering Design References: <1993Feb10.121002.11134@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 19:58:05 GMT Lines: 27 In article 11134@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE, Stephan.Maurer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Stephan Maurer) writes: >Hi! > >I tried to boot 386bsd former but I didn't have enough space on my >200MB-CDC Drive to install it. It booted OK. Now I bought an 1.2GB >disk from IBM an had to change the Bios/MCode-eproms on my Adaptec >1542b-Controller to support disks > 1GB. Now, when I try to boot >from floppy to install 386bsd it stops after the message `changing >root device to fd0a'. I think it might be a Problem with the SCSI- >Driver which dosen't support the new Eproms on my Adaptec. > >Did anyone else recognize this problem? > This is the second message in two days about the dist floppy hanging at that point. I have the same problem with an IDE (WD 95044-A). It works just fine with both my Conners. The probe comes back with the id jumbled like DW9 0544A- and then it hangs at the same point. Pointers anyone? The 0.2 patch version does the same. --- -klaus klaus@ced.utah.edu What's my sign? - "Watch for snowplows in your lane"