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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 09:29:21 MDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
From: reedr@gecko.ee.byu.edu (Ryan Reed)
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University ECEN Dept
Subject: 386bsd on 486sx
I have tried to install both linux and 386bsd on my 486sx with no success.
Neither system will boot up at all. I think there must be some kind of hardware
problem that is preventing the boot from finishing. When I try to boot linux, I
get the message "loading ...." and then something about video modes and "Press
any key" and then nothing else happens. With 386bsd, the boot disk starts to spi
n
but never finishes and no messages are ever printed out. I know both boot disks
work because I have booted other machines before and after. If anyone has had a
similar problem and overcame it, or even just figured out the problem, I would
like to hear from them, (or see a posted message).
My system is:
Expotech motherboard
intel 486sx 33 MHz cpu
seagate 210 Meg hd
Boca research SVGA card with 1 Meg vram (Cirrus Logic chipset)
If it helps in the "diagnosis" I am also running MACH 2.6 sucessfully on the
same machine.