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From: kolar@spot.Colorado.EDU (Jennifer Lynn Kolar)
Subject: BSD will not boot now
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 09:38:03 GMT
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Hi, solved the com driver problems, but now I have a new problem. I installed
the XFree86 distribution, and it complained about not having the X stuff in
the kernel. I traced it down to using syscons, so I deinstalled it, and reused
the pccons driver. Rebuilt the kernel, and rebooted after installing the new
kernel, and now the machine just will not boot. I get a page full of errors
that scroll too fast to read, but have something to do with wd: hard errors
and then the machine reboots. I tried to boot off the 0.2 dist and fixit 
disks, but it hangs after I get the copyrights (it never probes). I can boot
off of the dist 0.1 floppy, but when I tried to copy the kernel from the fd to
the hd and reboot, it fails with same errors. I can get the 0.2 dist floppy to
boot on another machine,so I guess it is bombing on my clone ide controller?
iI had thought that at first, but I recall the first probe to be the console...

Any help would be appreciated.

	System configuration:
	486-50dx, 8megs ram, 256k cache
	trident 8900 1 meg video card
	ide hd/fd/serial card
	maxtor 7213 hd

J