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From: jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp (Junichi Kurokawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! 950412-SNAP won't boot
Date: 18 May 1995 01:33:34 GMT
Organization: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Akasaka, Tokyo.
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In-reply-to: stair@abel.kaist.ac.kr's message of 15 May 1995 03:58:54 GMT
>>>>> "M" == Minsung Kim <stair@abel.kaist.ac.kr> writes:
M> The problem is that my machine doesn't complete boot
M> procedure. It displays usual "changing root device to fd0c" with
M> non-blinking cursor, then it hangs. If I try a warm reset, it
M> panics. (Page fault)
Does your motherboard let you boot DOS?
If it does, try disabling your secondary cache and try FreeBSD. If it
boots, then the motherboard has got a widely known bad-match against
Net/FreeBSD. I vaguely recall that these two operating systems imply
that you've got a write-back cache working properly, as opposed to linux
and DOS defaulting to slower write-through cache. Hence the above
technique to try.
Regards,
junichi
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Junichi Kurokawa
Enterprise Networking Development Division
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.