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From: greg@ecse.rpi.edu (Greg)
Subject: 386bsd 0.1 - Speed dependent boot problem
Message-ID: <greg.711746666@hibp2.ecse.rpi.edu>
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:24:26 GMT
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I seem to have a problem booting that is timing dependant. My machine will
boot off wd0 about 95 % the time when in low speed mode. In high speed (33MHz)
it boots only about 20% of the time.
My equipment:
386-33 Advanced Integration Research motherboard (1 CHIPS & 2 ETEQ VLSIs)
Quantum 105lp IDE
Trident 8900 vga
Novell Ne2000 ethernet
I started to poke around in the boot stuff. I put a printf at the begining of
boot.c. I rebuilt wdboot and bootwd and then re-disklabeled. I verified that
boot.c was not reached when the boot failed. When it succeeded, I saw my
debugging message. My 80x06 assembly is a bit rusty, so I hesitated to
plunge into wdbootblk.c. Before I do this, I wonder if anyone can give me any
possible stategies.
Thanks, Greg greg@megas.ecse.rpi.edu