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From: shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (S.E.P. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Can't boot 386bsd (opti chipset?)
Date: 23 Jul 1993 03:04:52 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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Hi, 

  I've been having a lot of difficulty trying to boot up 386BSD/NetBSD.
I am running a pretty plain vanilla system, no SCSI.  The bootdisk hangs
before anything is written to the screen, and the drive light that the
boot disk is in stays lit for as long as I leave the machine sitting.

  My hardware configuration is as follows:

	AMD 386/40 with OPTI chipset
	No 80387
	Quantum 240 Meg IDE HD
	Acculogic IDE Controller w/ floppy controller
	ATI VGA Wonder +
	Taiwanese IO board 2s/1p
	Viewsonic monitor
	Hayes 2400 baud modem

  Does anyone know of any hardware compatability with any of the above?
I am particularly concerned about the OPTI chipset.  I think that might
be it.

  I have heard people speak of unofficial patched boot floppies.  Where
can I get these, specifically?

  Until I get this running I will be running Linux (please help before 
its too late.)

Shawn Brown