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From: Roy@AdeptSolutions.com (Roy Lovejoy)
Subject: BSD Newbie & Dell DGX
Organization: Adept Solutions
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 05:43:43 GMT
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So I made the floppies out of boot.flp & cpio.flp, infact I made three of each,
yet my DELL 450 DE/2 DGX will not boot.

I have their JAWS video card,
Adaptec 1542c, (no IDE drives, all SCSI)
36 M ram

What happens is that the Dell goes through ITS boot process,
the Adaptec card does it's thing (recognizes SCSI disk @ 0),

then the floppy starts to boot, the cursor jumps about 1/3 of the screen,
to the right, then <poof> reboot, and the whole thing starts over again.

As I said, I have made multiple copies, paid heed to the README's and
ROADMAPS etc.  I'm the kind of person who blows their brains out before
they go on the net, only to be told RTFM, so I've pretty much exausted
everything.

Since the Dell has no IDE drive, (the only thing slightly non-standard on
this 'PC'), I have tried to flip all of the BIOS switches regarding
auto-sensing hard-disks etc, but to no avail.

I'm only a *BSD* newbie, I've hacked the same Dell, with NeXT STEP 486
(pre-betas), with no problem, NextStep on an 030 cube back to v 1.0, And
macs when you developed them on Lisas.

In the future, I was going to buy a 'grunge-486' machine, no bells or
whistles, to run FreeBSD, but I really wanted to try to get it working on
my development PC first.

Please, any suggestions would be appreciated.

Send e-mail to roy@adeptsolutions.com

Thanks.
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