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From: armhold@action.rutgers.edu (George Armhold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Endless boot cycle- suggestions?
Message-ID: <Aug.14.12.34.42.1992.8037@action.rutgers.edu>
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:34:42 GMT
Organization: DIMACS @ Rutgers University
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I'm having problems getting 386BSD 0.1 to boot from my HD. Here's my
configuration:
ZEOS 386 SX
2 MB Ram
American Megatrends BIOS
300MB ESDI,Adaptec controller
Western Digital Elite16T Enet card
DOS 5.0
I've got a 32 MB DOS primary partition, and an extended partition, 75
MB of which are for another DOS drive, and the rest to BSD. I did
this partitioning via fdisk under DOS.
When booting off of the install floppy, it right away recognized the
partition I had allocated for BSD (magic?) and I followed the
procedure for formatting and installation.
It claimed to have formatted 214 MB pretty damn quick- about 3
minutes. I'm suspicious. It then mounts the disk and does the
install. "Press any key to reboot from HD". I do, and the machine
goes into an endless boot cycle. When it tries to read the bootstrap
code from the HD it does a hard reset, memory check, etc, and then
loops again.
I checked the partition code for the BSD partition, and sure enough
it's set to A5. I read the "known problems" article, but didn't find
a solution. If anyone could offer some help or suggestions I'd be
most appreciative. I'm not intimately familiar with this hardware, so
please forgive me if I've left out some important detail.
Thanks,
-George
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