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From: leo@ipmce.su (Leonid A. Broukhis)
Subject: QUESTION (and probably a bug report)
Message-ID: <C3DpLx.EJz@ipmce.su>
Organization: Inst. of Prec. Mech. & Comp. Equip., Moscow, Russia
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 19:17:54 GMT
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	Hello All,

I've got version 0.1 on "The InfoMagic CD-ROM" and tried to install
it on ST3120 IDE drive (81 Mb for 386BSD, 21 for DOS).

	To do it, I've got the very drive and connected it to a
machine with LAN access (EtherNet card COMPEX/ENET with WD8003C,
WDplus and NE-1000/2000 emulation) in WD8003C mode, IRQ 2(9),
I/O 280h, FRAME D000h. The card has been detected but ifconfig
caused freezing. It seems to be already discussed.

	Well, switched to NE-2000 mode and it worked (oh these
"startart"s - 5 Kb/s, but this feature is known too).
The system has been successfully installed and NFS has been
tested as well (though it wasn't necessary), i.e.
many reboots from HD have been done.

After that I've picked the drive and reconnected it to my machine
(386SX/25, 2Mb RAM). And you know what? It freezes immediately
after the BIOS's beep indicating the start of booting process.

But it does boot from floppy despite the shortage of memory and works
well with HD (e.g. mount /dev/wd0a /mnt; /mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt;
and it looks like working).

	Is it a subtle bug in wdboot/bootwd? If yes and it is
already known, where can I get the patch; and if not what is
the cause of such a strange behavior?

	Thanks in advance,
-- 
	Leonid A. Broukhis  | Mixta, Da, Signa: After each e-mail message.