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From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen)
Subject: Re: AST Power Exec wont boot
Message-ID: <1993Nov5.215308.958@convex.com>
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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 21:53:08 GMT
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In article <2b918b$6ki@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
Jaye Mathisen <osyjm@cs.montana.edu> wrote:
>In article <2b74rm$gqi@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
>Fred Gruner <fgruner@ehsn10.cen.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>I have an AST Powerexec 4/SL. It wont boot the boot disk for BSD (I
>>tried both the IDE versions.) I guess I am not totally sure what kind
>>of drive the internal one is (notebook removable). When it tries to
>>boot, it just looks at the disk for a about a second, and the sits,
>>nothing ever comes on the screen.
>
>I have the exact same problem with the color model.
>
>FreeBSD boot disks and NetBSD boot disks don't even get started. BSDI
>boot disks start, get a tad further, then barf and die.
A collegue of mine has an AST Powerexec 4/SL color and has no problems
running BSDI. talking to Mike Karrels he thinks that only older AST
have problems due to bios bugs.
>
>Linux works flawlessly on it, I would suggest you run with that.
>--
> Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780
> 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
> Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu
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Stefan Grefen Convex Computer GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
grefen@convex.com Phone: +49-69-665270