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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
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:03:41 GMT
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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:

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   From: jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones)
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   Date: 18 Jul 92 04:55:51 GMT
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	   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