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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: trying to boot off Tiny BSD (dist.fs)
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 16:47:07 GMT
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In article <1993Feb21.035221.14399@mail.mmmg.com> us292252@mmc.mmc.mmmg.com (Gregory E. Nunn) writes:
>In article <1993Feb19.182129.24913@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>>In article <1993Feb18.170205.4213@nic.csu.net> jtmack@rincon.sfsu.edu (James T. Mack) writes:
>>> [stuff about a PB system with a Adaptec SCSI controller deleted]
>>
>>If it isn't a 1542B (I hear there is now a 1542C as well, no data on it),
>>then you will need a kernel patched with Julian's SCSI drivers -- unlikely
>>to be on your disk, but avaialble on patched kernels from ref.tfs.com and
>>agate.berkeley.edu.  Other than that, the 1542A is not supported.
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Do you mean the 1542A is not supported without Julian's SCSI drivers, or
>that the 1542A is not supported at all?  I have a 1542A based system
>that I would like to try 386bsd on.


Actually, patch00601 adds in the support for the 1542A, but you'll need
to re-compile the bootblocks and apply the patch to the kernel.  For a
kernel, any of the patchkit kernels on agate have the driver in it,
but unfortunately didn't re-make the bootblocks.

Nate
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