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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!yallara!s933379 From: s933379@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Wayne P Maurer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Help with NetBSD-0.9 please!!! Date: 4 Jul 1994 07:24:10 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2v8deq$8g5@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au NNTP-Posting-User: s933379 Hi, Being sick of DOS and Windoze, I bought a new machine so I could run a _real_ OS; I chose NetBSD. I'm having troubles actually installing it; and looking through the install notes and the 386bsd FAQ, I can't find any similar problem. I used rawrite to write the image kc-aha-09.fs to a 1.44 floppy. When I try to boot of this kernal copy disk, the following appears on the screen: >> NetBSD BOOT @ 0x90000: 640/7424 k of memory [$Revision: 1.8 $] use options hd(1,...... to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed Boot: [[fd(0,a)]/netbsd][-s][-a][-d]] :- The machine sits there for about 5 seconds, then decides to reboot; so I try typing: fd0 and fda and fd0/netbsd, but no matter what, the machine reboots. I tried changing the BIOS settings, that didn't help and plus I really don't know a lot about them. Is it my machine? It's a 486DX40 (true) with VESA local bus and 8 meg of RAM. I have a 420 meg Western Digital HD (although I can't see why that should affect anything at this stage, as the kernal is only beeing loaded into main memory isn't it??). I'm using AMIBIOS (date 08/08/93). Could anyone _please_ help; I'm sort of tearing my hair out. :-) Wayne