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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:416 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:75 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!slcs.slb.com!ut-emx!tivoli!steveb From: steveb@tivoli.UUCP (Steve Benz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Help booting dist.fs on my 386DX-33 Message-ID: <11370@tivoli.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 93 19:26:47 GMT References: <1993Feb23.041216.19646@alw.nih.gov> Reply-To: steveb@tivoli.UUCP (Steve Benz) Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX Lines: 12 In article <1993Feb23.041216.19646@alw.nih.gov> ramon@helix.nih.gov (Ramon J. Hontanon) writes: >I've tried to boot up tiny 386BSD for a long time now, and have had no >success with the dist.fs from 0.1 or the one in ~/bootables at >agate.berkeley.edu. Whenever I try it, it gives me the welcome banner >and just hangs there, the A: drive light spinning.... I tried installing 386BSD recently, and this was merely the first of a great many problems I encountered... The answer to this riddle (for me) was to press & release the left shift key... This, for reasons best known to a kernel hacker, unsticks it. - Steve