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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!super!rminnich From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) Subject: Re: 386BSD won't boot off Compaq 386sx/16 Message-ID: <1992Aug19.144226.7836@super.org> Sender: news@super.org (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: super Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD) References: <1992Aug17.190759.8713@hotb.sub.org> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:42:26 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1992Aug17.190759.8713@hotb.sub.org> thomas@hotb.sub.org (Thomas Brettinger) writes: >I tried to install 386BSD on a Compaq 386sx/16, with Numeric >Coprocessor, 5M Ram, 84M Conner IDE Harddisk. >The screen stays black, and the machine reboots after reading some >tracks from the floppy. And reboots, and reboots.... yup, 0.0 dist.fs boots fine, but you can not build a boot track for floppy from 0.0, nor can you boot 0.1 dist.fs at all. You are not alone. something weird about compaqs, i have heard about this from 486, 386, everybody with one of those !@#$#@$! compaqs. There is one guy i have heard from, who has many compaqs, and precisely one of these machines will boot 0.1! it is in no known way different. for what it is worth, bsdi stuff will boot on a compaq, according to bsdi, and this has been tested by no less than COMPAQ itself. I don't have the time to fool with these machines so am going to drop a kbuck on bsdi and stop beating my head against the wall. ron -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- satisfaction: the feeling you get when you | rminnich@super.org run newfs on a DOS disk so you can install 386BSD.| (301)-805-7451 Now if only I could do this to AIX on the RS/6k ...|