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From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can't boot 386bsd (opti chipset?)
Date: 23 Jul 1993 07:15:38 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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S.E.P. Brown (shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote:
: 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.)
no no no BEWARE !!!
: Shawn Brown
i've the same Problem too ...
486/50Mhz Eisa Opti 16MB
Adaptec 1542B
525MB ST3600N
Ne2000
4xser+2xser
ati-graphics-ultra
Our problem is NOT the Software!
Try DOS and you'll see: it doesnt works or it doesnt works stable.
If i remove one of my cards (ne2000 or ser or adaptec) or
use another motherboard , it works
under DOS and Unix.
i know some other peoples with the same problem.
Now i'll buy me another motherboard.
AND: DON'T BUY LINUX! it's too small!
USE BSD! bsd works great, is great and thats why it uses much
place on a disk.
Bis denne ... Lars.