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From: donaldh@cs.hw.ac.uk (Donald I. Hunter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Booting 386BSD 0.1 Tiny
Message-ID: <1992Jul23.143337.14294@cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:33:37 GMT
Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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I've been trying to boot the 0.1 Tiny distribution disk. It boots the whole
way and then hangs when the # prompt appears.

I know the machine has an ethernet controller and I think it is still set for irq 3. Does this have to be changed before 386BSD will boot correctly?

Cheers, Donald.
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 | Donald I. Hunter                   donaldh@uk.ac.hw.cs |
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 | Hello. Just walk along and try NOT to think about your |
 |    INTESTINES being almost FORTY YARDS LONG!!          |
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