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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!yuma!barnesdo 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 Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department Lines: 40 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 -- ----------- douglas barnes, barnesdo@CS.ColoState.EDU