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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!decwrl!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!crl.com From: rwatkins@crl.com (Ronald Watkins) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 386BSD won't boot from floppy... Date: 10 Sep 1993 12:53:29 -0700 Organization: CRL Internet Dialup Access 415-705-6060 (guest) Lines: 27 Message-ID: <26qlvp$q1t@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] I hope someone out there can help me. Emailed replies would be a little bit more appreciated, because I'm more comfortable with PINE than with TIN. :) I'm looking for a UNIX system to learn. Have LINUX installed on my box, but am a bit overwhelmed at the sheer amount of undocumented stuff. The documentation and philosophy for the TINY386BSD boot disk seemed very appealing, so I tried to boot it up to check it out: no response. I checked the FAQ, but there's so much info in it that I honestly don't know where to look. (I put the boot floppy in the drive; it seems to start okay (heads seek awhile, lights flash on keyboard, but then it locks up.) I have this hardware config: 386-40 with 4megs ram, AMI BIOS 200MB IDE HD (Conner, I think) Soundblaster Pro Taiwanese Special multi-I/O and IDE adapters Orchid Fahrenheit 1280/VLB. **** I suspect the Orchid card may be the problem. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!! <<RON>> B B B A A A ** Orchid Fahrenheit 1280/VLB