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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1969 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 20:00:31 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Xenon.Stanford.EDU!dhess From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew Hess) Subject: Re: [386bsd] Gateway 2000 Problems Message-ID: <dhess.730442527@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA References: <1lrmksINN1hu@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Feb22.233738.10534@mcs.anl.gov> <1993Feb23.001632.29746@coe.montana.edu> Date: 23 Feb 93 04:42:07 GMT Lines: 24 nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <1993Feb22.233738.10534@mcs.anl.gov> winans@xray.aps.anl.gov (John R. Winans) writes: >>In article <1lrmksINN1hu@gap.caltech.edu> har@caltech.edu (Harold Levy) writes: >>>I cannot get the dist.fs disk to boot up my Gateway 2000 486-66V >>>machine. The latest FAQ sheet I could find was dated Aug92. >> >>I had the same problem... I decided it was the localbus hardware. It works >>pretty good on my Gateway 2000 486-50DX2. I also heard of a friend that was >>working on some localbus code so that he could run it on his Gateway 2000 >>486-??? (with localbus.) >Did you try the patchkit bootables? If not, try them out. In >~unofficial/patch-kit on all 386BSD archive sites. Yes, I think this is the answer. The new patchkit bootables are supposed to fix the Gateway boot problem. It has nothing to do with the VL-Bus; the floppy controller that Gateway uses in the 4DX2-66V has a different initialization value than what is hardcoded in the bootable image. -dwh- dhess@cs.stanford.edu