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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!pipex!bnr.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!brian Subject: Re: 386BSD(NetBSD) is great but documentation could be better Distribution: world References: <JTSILLA.93Jun19145458@dec5200b.ccs.northeastern.edu> Organization: tp Reply-To: Brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21) Lines: 56 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 21:26:30 +0000 Message-ID: <741561990snz@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <JTSILLA.93Jun19145458@dec5200b.ccs.northeastern.edu> jtsilla@dec5200b.ccs.northeastern.edu writes: > >Well, after a couple of weeks of struggling in getting MS-DOS to work >with NetBSD I am finally able to boot both. Looking back I now see that >what I thought where bugs are just shortcomings in the documentation. > I don't know about that... I had exactly the same problems with 386bsd (the worst of which involved changing the SCSI logical sector number in the primary bootstrap program so that I could re-label the disk). After getting everything working and looking at the docs again, I can't see anything that is _NOT_ mentioned. >I'm now able to boot either MS-DOS 5.0 or 386BSD via Thomas Wolfram's >gem: OS-BS, a neat little boot manager that has everything you need plus >some in booting your partitions (this is freeware and I'll gladly mail >it to anyone who needs it). > Ditto - it works fine for me too. >Currently the only problems I face are a bunch of stray interrupt >messages (ff) and some silo overflows when I push the slow serial ports >(I have two fifo-based ports which never see this). > Apparently the slio errors disappear with patch-kit 0.2.4 - I'm just about to reboot with a pseudo-device sio 2 kernel. >Also, can someone point me to a virtual console setup. I got spoiled on >vt's using ISC Unix and would like to get them for 386BSD. Can someone >also suggest a solution to why the NFS server won't work. Right now any >time I try to mount I get 'inadequate credentials' or such. > Patch-kit 0.2.4 gives you a CTRL-ALT-F? virtual terminal set. Get the patch-kit, and look in /sys/isa/codrv/DOC (I think). >thanks, >-Jim. > > >-- > *** James Tsillas jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu *** > *** Work: (508)898-2800, Home: (617)641-0513 *** > *** "He is after me. Jim is after him." *** > *** - Hop on Pop, Dr. Seuss *** > Hope the info helps. -- Brian Somers