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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1914 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:03:50 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!rpi!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: trying to boot off Tiny BSD (dist.fs) Message-ID: <1993Feb21.164707.16568@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717 References: <1993Feb18.170205.4213@nic.csu.net> <1993Feb19.182129.24913@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Feb21.035221.14399@mail.mmmg.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 16:47:07 GMT Lines: 25 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 -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, home #: (406) 586-0579 | I don't think they'll catch on - Don H.