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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!stanford.edu!morrow.stanford.edu!morrow.stanford.edu!shaker From: shaker@shaker26-ss2.cisco.com (Christopher J. Shaker) Subject: Re: Boot problems with 386BSD 0.1 release In-Reply-To: jones@acsu.buffalo.edu's message of 18 Jul 92 04: 55:51 GMT Message-ID: <SHAKER.92Jul22170341@shaker26-ss2.cisco.com> Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service) Organization: cisco Systems, Inc. References: <BrKJ13.4zA@acsu.buffalo.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:03:41 GMT Lines: 44 Terry: The TinyBSD image booted on my 50 Mhz 486/DX1 once I turned off the *internal* 486 cache. I have the external secondary cache enabled. Before that, the floppy spun forever. Unfortunately, it doesn't believe that my DPT EISA SCSI interface and SCSI disk has a disk attached. I can boot minix 1.3 on this machine, and the WD1003 emulation on the DPT EISA SCSI is supposed to be quite good. Chris In article <BrKJ13.4zA@acsu.buffalo.edu> jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) writes: Path: morrow.stanford.edu!stanford.edu!rutgers!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu!jones From: jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Date: 18 Jul 92 04:55:51 GMT Sender: nntp@acsu.buffalo.edu Organization: UB Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: beatrix.eng.buffalo.edu Well I've run out of ideas trying to get 0.1 to boot on my machine. I've pulled every card out of the box with the exception of the video card and that can't be a problem since none of the three I tried made any difference. The Tiny 386BSD floppy boots to the point of displaying the 4 line banner and hangs with the floppy still spinning along. From here only hardware reset will reboot the machine, <CTRL><ALT>DEL doesn't do the trick. I have turned off all BIOS shadowing and disabled the secondary cache, to no avail. Specifics on the motherboard and configuration: Mylex MDI 486-33 Motherboard - Mylex BIOS V6.09, OPTI chipset 256K External Cache 8-1Meg SIMMS Diamond Speedstar VGA w/1Meg RAM Adaptec 1542B SCSI HA Has anyone else been able to boot 0.1 with this motherboard or can think of something I've missed? Thanks in advance, Terry Jones jones@cs.buffalo.edu