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From: fmayhar@acsc.com (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: More *BSD installation grief.
Date: 24 Sep 1993 20:39:56 -0700
Organization: Advanced Computing Systems Company
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <280eic$eu4@acsc.com>
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Well, I decided to fall back to FreeBSD, after my unsuccessful bout with
NetBSD.  I grabbed the distribution, built the kc, filesystem, and cpio
floppies, and went for it.

_This_ time, I can't even get as far as I did with NetBSD.  The kc floppy
boots and asks for the filesystem floppy, which I provide.  It then proceeds
to go through its startup sequence.  It finally prints a "ISA strayintr 7"
message, indicates that it's changing the root filesystem to fd0a, and then
hangs forever.

Note that I can, and have, booted 386bsd 0.1.2.4 several times during this
process, with no problems whatsoever.  Also note that I'm not trying to
use my SCSI devices, although they are found.

I'm about ready to shoot my computer.  Sigh.  extreme :-(
-- 
Frank Mayhar  fmayhar@acsc.com
	      Advanced Computing Systems Company
	      3000 S. Robertson Blvd. Suite 400, LA, CA 90034   (310) 815-4858