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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!bionet!raven.alaska.edu!skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu!sxjcb From: sxjcb@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386bsd 0.1 - Speed dependent boot problem Message-ID: <sxjcb.31.711750643@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu> Date: 21 Jul 92 20:30:43 GMT References: <greg.711746666@hibp2.ecse.rpi.edu> Sender: news@raven.alaska.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network Lines: 40 Nntp-Posting-Host: skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu In article <greg.711746666@hibp2.ecse.rpi.edu> greg@ecse.rpi.edu (Greg) writes: >Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd >Path: raven.alaska.edu!decwrl!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!greg >From: greg@ecse.rpi.edu (Greg) >Subject: 386bsd 0.1 - Speed dependent boot problem >Message-ID: <greg.711746666@hibp2.ecse.rpi.edu> >Nntp-Posting-Host: hibp2.ecse.rpi.edu >Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:24:26 GMT >Lines: 22 >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 Perhaps. but not necessarily clockspeed alone. My 386/25 always boots correctly, while my 486/25 boots maybe one in eight times...... - jcb ______________________________________________________________________________ | Jay C. Beavers | sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu University of Alaska Computer Network | sxjcb@alaska.bitnet ______________________________________|_______________________________________