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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!news.netins.net!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!worak.kaist.ac.kr!adam.kaist.ac.kr!stair From: stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr (Minsung Kim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help! 950412-SNAP won't boot Date: 21 May 1995 06:31:07 GMT Organization: KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of science and Technology) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3pmmnb$39p@worak.kaist.ac.kr> References: <JUN.95May18103334@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: adam.kaist.ac.kr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Junichi Kurokawa (jun@fox.fax.iwa.fujixerox.co.jp) wrote: : >>>>> "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 : -- : Junichi Kurokawa : Enterprise Networking Development Division : Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Thank you very much, junichi. It really helped a lot! -- Stair, alive in their sweet memory =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Minsung Kim <stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr> Undergraduate CS Dept., KAIST