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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!ceharris From: ceharris@mal.com (Carl Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: INTERRUPT 16 boot hang Date: 21 Jul 1995 16:51:24 GMT Organization: Maladjusted Communications Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3uoluc$j5k@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <3ugi16INNgv@scarecrow.mke.ab.com> <3uoee5INNi9@scarecrow.mke.ab.com> Reply-To: ceharris@mal.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mal9000.mal.com NNTP-Posting-User: ceharris X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Thad Phetteplace x4461 (tdphette@mke.ab.com) wrote: : > npx0: INTERRUPT 16 : I found the problem. I was using a 2.0.5-ALPHA boot disk instead of : the RELEASE version. I upgraded the boot disk, and everything worked : fine. We have the same problem using the 2.0.5-RELEASE diskette on one aging POC 386 machine. Booting with /kernel -c and disabling npx0 works around it. -- Carl Harris EXECUTIVE Scapegoat (and Systems Engineer) Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech ceharris@cs.vt.edu