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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!udel!rochester!rocksanne!trianguli!leisner From: leisner@trianguli (Marty Leisner 311/? x?) Subject: Re: Installing boot disks on a sun sparcstation Message-ID: <1992Jul23.122107.26557@spectrum.xerox.com> Sender: news@spectrum.xerox.com Reply-To: leisner.henr801c@xerox.com Organization: Xerox X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <1992Jul22.204415.19337@spectrum.xerox.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:21:07 GMT leisner@trianguli (Marty Leisner 311/? x?) writes: : Well, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but whenever I insert a boot disk into a compaq, it starts to read the : disk, then reboots (displays the ram count)...in an infinite loop. : I just bought a cheopo PC to have at home (KLH clone, 1 meg/386 for now, 40 meg Hard) My 386BSD disk boots on this machine (doesn't do anything, complains about the lack of ram...should it come up with a prompt?) It prints the initial half a screen and just doesn't seem to do anything (but I ddin't expect this machine to run Unix). Anyone know what wrong withthe Compaq? I tried several machines (with up to 16 meg of ram) with the same (negative) results. -- marty leisner.henr801c@xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom