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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!rtf.bt.co.uk!duplain From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD won't boot off Compaq 386sx/16 Message-ID: <1992Aug20.081744.7709@rtf.bt.co.uk> Date: 20 Aug 92 08:17:44 GMT References: <1992Aug17.190759.8713@hotb.sub.org> <1992Aug19.144226.7836@super.org> Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK Lines: 17 In article <1992Aug19.144226.7836@super.org> rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) writes: > >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. This may be the same for Zenith PCs also... 0.1 boots from some older Zenith machines (386DX and 386SX 16MHz), but not the newer 386SX 20MHz... bummer. Has anyone managed to get 0.1 booting on the newer Zeniths ??? -- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk #define DISCLAIMER My views and opinions are my own, and not my company's