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From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Subject: New hints for people having trouble booting 386BSD 0.1
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:57:53 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Aug21.055753.5117@NeoSoft.com>
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A couple of booting successes tonight:

A 50 MHz 486 with UMC chipset and AMI BIOS

A fairly old 33 MHz 386 with Chips chipset and AMI BIOS

I was having a lot of trouble booting these guys.  The 486 would hang at
the probe, the 386 would just spin and never do anything.

Well, the 386 had a scratchpad RAM option, it could be "type 1", using stack 
at 0:300, or "type 2", which said "1K DOS".  Setting it to "1K DOS" made it go.

Similarly the 486 had an option on where to put the type 47 disk definition
RAM area (they're both SCSI systems) at 0:300 or "1K DOS", so they're doing
the same thing but the newer BIOS is more descriptive.  Anyway, once again,
1K DOS and it launched.

Boot the fixit disk, pull the OS down over ethernet and, voila, 100,002
386BSD systems ;-)

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