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From: overby@cray.com (Glen Overby)
Subject: Re: problems bringing up 386BSD 0.1
Message-ID: <1992Jul20.212320.20786@hemlock.cray.com>
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References: <RAEBURN.92Jul17141049@cambridge.cygnus.com> <michaelv.711604391@help.cc.iastate.edu> <greg.711645054@hibp1.ecse.rpi.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 92 21:23:20 CDT

I, too, am a member of the "It Won't Boot" clan.

System:
Megatronics 386SX-16
387SX (yup, bought one just for 0.0)
4MB RAM
VGA monitor (SEFCO is on the manual; Trident is the Copyright in the ROMs)
Seagate ST-02 SCSI / Floppy
1.44MB floppy

When I boot, 386bsd thinks it recognises a WD controler out there (there is 
none) and hangs after mounting /dev/fd0a as root.  It's my guess that it's
waiting for the non-existant ISA disk to respond.  I've pulled all cards but
the Seagate and VGA.  I think I'll try recompiling without a WD controler at
all (that didn't work under 0.0, but this ISN'T 0.0) or hard-code the driver
to ignore what it thinks is a controler.

Glen Overby