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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!fauern!lrz-muenchen.de!colin.muc.de!ars.muc.de!rommel From: rommel@ars.muc.de (Kai Uwe Rommel) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: auto-reset when booting install floppies? Distribution: world Message-ID: <748206430rommel.root@ars.muc.de> Sender: root@ars.muc.de Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 20:07:10 MET Organization: Private Lines: 24 I have recently tried both the NetBSD 0.9 and FreeBSD boot floppies to install 386BSD on my system. Both boot floppy sets show the same symptom. The first floppy loads the kernel, asks for the filesystem floppy (which I insert) and after writing the usual boot messages (found devices etc., all messages look OK), when it comes to the "changing root device ..." the system performs a reset or just hangs. Same effect for NetBSD and FreeBSD. NetBSD 0.8 worked, as far as I tried it (never really installed it, only booted the install floppies). The system: 486DX-50, EISA (Intel chipset), Adaptec 1742A (yes, I used the correct boot floppy), SCSI peripherals (DEC disk, Tandberg streamer, NEC CD-ROM), Trident SVGA, Paradise 8514/A+, four serial ports (4 x 16550A), PAS-16 sound card, WD 8003 network card. Kai Uwe Rommel -- /* Kai Uwe Rommel Muenchen, Germany * * rommel@ars.muc.de Phone +49 89 723 4101 * * rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de Fax +49 89 324 4524 */ DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams