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From: barnesdo@CS.ColoState.EDU (douglas barnes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: One booting success, one failure
Message-ID: <Jul31.001629.32070@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:16:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: yuma.Jul31.001629.32070
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A booting success and a failure (tried three different boot diskettes
on two different systems, all worked on one, none worked on the other).
Diskettes used:
dist.fs (Jollitz .1.24), dist.fs, (cgd) fixit.fs (cgd)
Symptoms:
Copyright notice appears, disk access light stays on, cursor blinks,
nothing else ever happens. I think I have seen a similar problem on
this group but not the solution. Tried all three diskettes, disabled or
disconnected all optional hardware, disabled various CMOS settings.
All three diskettes had exact same problem.
Failed to boot on:
486/33mhz OPTI-486WB with 8MB RAM
OPTI chipset, AMI BIOS (6/6/91)
"Groundhog Graphics" ET4000 SVGA card
Quantum 234mb IDE drive
1.2mb and 1.44mb drives (1.2mb is boot)
All serial and parallel cards removed after initial failure
All "shadow" options disabled in CMOS after initial failure
All caches disabled in CMOS after initial failure
Speed reduced to "16mhz" after additional failures
Same diskettes booted just fine on:
386/25mhz no-name board with 4mb RAM (so Taiwanese the "manual" is
in Chinese...)
OPTI chipset, AMI BIOS (ca. 1989)
"Tronics" ET3000
Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter
Quantum 120mb SCSI drive
generic 2serial/1parallel card
Any ideas on this mysterious failure would be greatly appreciated. When
the larger hard drive arrives, I can start hacking but until then...
doug
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douglas barnes, barnesdo@CS.ColoState.EDU