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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!uunet!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!isgtec!bmw From: bmw@isgtec.com (Bruce M. Walker) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.1.5.1] Is 486DLC inherently bad? (won't boot!) Message-ID: <Cx7B6K.FGp@isgtec.com> Sender: news@isgtec.com (News Owner) Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. References: <Cx5Ewx.5M4@isgtec.com> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 13:08:43 GMT Lines: 29 In article <Cx5Ewx.5M4@isgtec.com>, Bruce M. Walker <bmw@isgtec.com> wrote: >I just tried to boot FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 (kcopy_ah) on my 486DLC/33 >(Cyrix/TI chip) last night. It clears the screen, then hard resets >the PC. I tried disabling the caches (per the README), no effect. I received email from James Huber (jbh@moses.oau.org) who has been running a 486DLC for a year, so apparently the CPU is not a problem. Last night I pulled out eveything except a Trident VGA and the IDE/floppy card. I reset the BIOS parms to plain-vanilla (no "non-cacheable" areas, no shadow RAM, etc.). I even took out 4M of simms in case I have some bad RAM. It *still* won't boot. It simply hangs with the floppy access led on. The 3.5" diskette that I'm using to boot this PC has successfully booted a Compaq LTE386s/20, so I know the boot image is fine. I'm losing hope for this system ... :-( > no-name ISA motherboard designed for 386/Cyrix 486. > AMI BIOS. > 8M RAM. > IDE with 130M Maxtor drive (with DOS). > Trident VGA (8900c) Last call for any other suggestions! -- bmw@isgtec.com [ ...!uunet.ca!isgtec!bmw ] Bruce Walker