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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!reftek!robert From: robert@reftek.uucp (Robert Fleming) Subject: Re: More Opti 386/40 weirdness Message-ID: <1993Jul30.013717.8875@reftek.uucp> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions Reply-To: robert@reftek.UUCP (Robert Fleming) Organization: REFTEK - Fairfax, VA, USA References: <234sstINN7n9@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 93 01:37:17 GMT Lines: 30 In article <234sstINN7n9@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (S.E.P. Brown) writes: >Hello, > > I posted a message a while back about problems I had been having booting >any of the many 386BSD/NetBSD bootdisks. Let me digress: I have, among >other things, an opti-chipset amd 386/40. I couldn't boot the bootdisks >when I was in turbo state. I discovered, thanks to some people on the group, >that I can boot in non-turbo 16mgz state. Well, thats nice and all, but very >kludgey. I'm wondering if I will be able to boot up in turbo state after I >get the distribution on my hardrive. Anyone have any ideas about this? Is >there some fix for this problem that I have overlooked? > >Thanks in advance, > >Shawn I also have the same problem. The 386bsd boot disk hangs part way into the boot process. The NetBSD install cannot get past the point where you swap floppies the first time. This is on a system that is rock-solid reliable running ESIX 5.3D. There must be something funny about 386bsd. My motherboard is one of the really inexpensive boards that supports any 386 or 486 from Intel, AMD, or Cyrix. It has Opti chipset, and AMI Bios, Adaptec 1542, SCSI disk. -- Robert Fleming Fairfax, Virginia USA uunet!reftek!robert fleming@mdsol1.mdc.com