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Subject: Tell me it is not so. (Booting problems AHA-1542C)
Message-ID: <1994Feb16.133543.6901@news.brandonu.ca>
From: weingart@BrandonU.CA (Tobias Weingartner)
Date: 16 Feb 94 13:35:42 CST
Reply-To: weingart@BrandonU.CA
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Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon University (Bit Cave)
Keywords: AHA-1542C
Nntp-Posting-Host: austin.brandonu.ca
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Hi all.

I have been trying to install NetBSD-0.9 on a 486DX2-66,
that has 16 MB of RAM.  Also, this machine has a AHA-1542C
in it.  The disk is a Fujitsu (1GB).

The problem is that the AHA BIOS is disabled.  This was done
by the local computer services, and they would rather not un-
bolt the machine to change this.

Bright little me thought I could boot from the aha-kc-fs...
floppy, and then enter "sd(0,a)/netbsd" at the very first
prompt.  However, I get an error (not exact):

Error ...: 0 ...: 0, etc
Error ...: 0 ...: 0, etc
Error ...: 0 ...: 0, etc
...


The question:  Can I do this?  Boot from a floppy, then tell it
to use the sd() for the actual filesystem?  If not from the kernel-
copy floppy, then how do I do this?  Do I *HAVE* to enable the AHA
BIOS?

Everything else works fine.  No problem with the 1542C yet, and even
the portions of the install script that I saw were done VERY well.

Kudos to the people who made this possible...  ;-)

--Toby.
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