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From: cattelan@everest.ee.umn.edu (Russell Cattelan)
Subject: NetBSD and FreeBSD hard resets when trying to boot
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 19:02:24 GMT
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We have been trying to get a 486 box of ours installed with perferably
NetBSD but at this point either Net or Free would do.
When ever we try to boot the machine with any of the kernal copy boot
disks (take your pick it happens with all of them) the boot screen comes
up and start the the little twirling cursor, it get to the third tick and
then does a hard reset of the machine ( check memory and the whole shebang)
We have a 486DX 50Mhz with a UMC?? chip set.
Adaptec 1542c scsi card, SVGA, and a serial card.
Any ideas or pointers on how to go about debugging this, would be most
aprec'
--
Russell Cattelan
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of ever behaving "normally."
-- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing '72"
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