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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!utciva.civ.utwente.nl!infnews!gnn From: gnn@cs.utwente.nl (George Neville-Neil) Subject: Re: 386BSD running on Compaq anything? Help, eh! Message-ID: <gnn.744023846@seine> Keywords: Compaq won't boot install floppy Sender: usenet@cs.utwente.nl Nntp-Posting-Host: seine.cs.utwente.nl Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science References: <2371dtINN9mq@marvin.is.wdi.disney.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 09:17:26 GMT Lines: 22 smacheso@wdi.disney.com (Steve Acheson) writes: >Ok, I've tried to get any compaq to boot the 0.1 install disk. >They just won't! The system will just reboot over an over, never >displaying the 386bsd banner etc. I downloaded the kcfloppy-genisa.fs >kernel and that would boot up to the point of copy the kernel to your >hard disk, then poof, reboot. >Any ideas here? Well, I've got the latest NetBSD running on my Compaq 3/25 laptop. It's running SLIP and X. I'd suggest trying NetBSD 0.8 instead of the old 386BSD. Later, George -- So may all your wives, if you need them, be rich and pretty; and all your husbands, if you want them, be young and virile; and all your cats as wily, perspicacious and resourceful as: Puss-In-Boots. -- Angela Carter (Puss-In-Boots)