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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!wjolitz From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD & COMPAQ 486/33 Date: 8 Sep 1992 17:45:21 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association Lines: 15 Message-ID: <18iorhINNfvn@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1992Sep7.112452.5403@csd.uch.gr> <1992Sep8.023138.25145@super.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu In article <1992Sep8.023138.25145@super.org> rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) writes: >In article <1992Sep7.112452.5403@csd.uch.gr> kanagn@ikaros.cc.uch.gr (Kostas Anagnostakis) writes: >>I tried to boot 386BSD on a COMPAQ 486/33 / 4 MB RAM but it didn't work. >>It didn't even get to the "386BSD etc" notice. Has anybody out there gone >>into the same problem ? > >as things currently stand compaq's won't boot it at all. any compaq. ... It's quite frustrating. We have an old Compaq greyface (386/20) (courtesy of Compaq) and it works just fine, but it was a "lab special" and hence may not be fully representative of all of Compaq's product line. Now if Compaq would just send us an updated model, or better yet one of the new notebooks, we would finally be able to figure out what's going wrong... Lynne.