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From: kevin@kestrel.kestrel.edu (Kevin Ow-Wing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Anyone successfully load version 0.1 on an Everex Step 385/25?
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Date: 22 Feb 93 19:08:57 GMT
Sender: kevin@kestrel.edu (Kevin Ow-Wing)
Organization: Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, CA
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I have been trying to get 386BSD to run on my Everex Step 386/25 without much
success.  I can usually boot from a dist.fs floppy, although not always.  When
it will boot, I have been able to proceed with the install to the hard disk,
but then I wouldn't be able to boot from the hard disk (and the Floppy light
would be stuck on).  I tried changing disk controller, which helped a little
bit; now I can boot from the hard disk, but the floppy drives aren't
recognized so I can't mread the rest of the distribution (and the light of
floppy drive A is stuck ON).

Any suggestions?  I should mention that the HD is an ESDI (CDC WREN V) and
the first controller was a DTC (6820?) and the 2nd controller was an Everex
EV348.  I should also mention that, because of DOS limitations, the disk had
been formatted using translation mode (in both controller cases).  Also, I
have been running DOS, etc. on this machine for 3 years and have never seen
any problems with the floppies, or the controller(s).

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Kevin