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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!darwin.sura.net!ukma!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu!tef From: tef@acsu.buffalo.edu (T. E. Frisinger) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Constant rebooting of hard drive (PLEASE HELP) Message-ID: <C38sIK.nw@acsu.buffalo.edu> Date: 2 Mar 93 03:32:43 GMT Sender: nntp@acsu.buffalo.edu Organization: UB Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu Hi, Well, I just finished installinf 386bsd. The installation went fine, but when I rebooted, the machine would start initializing and then flash an error message and reboot. After letting it reboot about 30 times so I could read the error message, I got most of it. It says something like, Operating system is saving copy of RAM at offset 0 (something about 1MB) device bad, rebooting. I saw a post of a similiar problem awhile back. The person said that his harddrive was constantly rebooting like mine( he didn't mention any error messages though). A person follewed up by saying it was a problem with the IDE controller, but didn't know how to fix it. Does anyone know how to fixit? I've checked the FAQ, README, and common problems and just about anything I could get my hands on, but no metion of this type of problem. For reference, my system is: 386/33 w/387 6megs RAM IDE seagate 125 meg HD. 55meg 386BSD partition. Please any help would be greatly welcomed. I'm beginning to become very frustrated. If I don't get it to work soon, I may have to try the seeming inferior Linux. oops, I said the L-word. Again thanks for any info. T. E. Frisinger tef@armstrong.cs.buffalo.edu