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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!egsner!shyguy!bmyers From: bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers) Subject: Help! - another one with initial boot ??? Message-ID: <C3CnM8.1v0@shyguy.lonestar.org> Organization: 3-B Technology Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 05:37:19 GMT Lines: 33 I've downloaded via anon. ftp a copy of the dist.fs and fixit.fs from gatekeeper.dec.com's /pub/BSD/386bsd/0.1/bootable area. I've seen two different actions with the disks made, depending upon which system i try them on.... 1: Laser 386sx/387sx system, 4 mb ram, STB Ergo Powergraph board, 2 104mb ide drives. trying to boot either of the two floppies here has the same outcome -- seems like the machine is locked. the floppy drive light is lit, but no keyboard responce. 2: Tandy 4800 laptop (486sx20 based), 8 mb ram, 60 mb hard drive. dist.fs boots to the '#', then locks. hitting the left shift key doesn't do diddley... fixit.fs boots to the '#' prompt. hitting the left shift key allows typing in other commands. but, can you do installs??? Both of the two disks were created with rawrite 1.2 (from a Linux set of utilities). I'd like to see this system in action before attempting to do anything with my DTK 80486-25/340 mb hard drive/676 mb hard drive (both ESDI)/12 mb ram system. any thoughts? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Myers | You gotta watch out for those Shyguy's AT&T SVR4 Unix/Uniboard | shy guys....you never know Email:bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org | what they're thinking..:)