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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!kksys.com!edgar!brainiac!lmt!chrisc From: chrisc@lmt.mn.org (Chris Cox W0/G4JEC) Subject: Boot problems on old 386/287 AMI system Message-ID: <1992Sep12.164204.9973@lmt.mn.org> Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 16:42:04 GMT Lines: 35 I have a fairly old 20MHz 386 system at home which has a '287 coprocessor installed. Last night, I tried an initial installation of 386BSD 0.0, however, I could not get past the boot stage. Specifically, after displaying the equipment configuration, and then inform- ing me that it was switching the root to fd0a, the system hung. I was able to warm boot, so it was not locked tight. The cursor was situated on the following (blank) line after the message about switching to fd0a, 12 charac- ter positions into the line. The system configuration is:- 80386/20 no cache 80287/10 6MB RAM with Shadowing of ROM's disabled via setup. AMI BIOS dated 15 Aug 88 Paradise Basic VGA SMS/OMTI 1:1 MFM HDD/FDD controller Wren II 36MB MFM drive 3.5" A: floppy 5.25" B: floppy WD8003E ethernet COM1 & COM2 (ususal config) LPT1 at 0x378 I tried removing the WD8003e, and swapping the disk controller, however, the results were identical. I did NOT try disabling the 80287. Will 386BSD boot on a machine which contains an 80287 coprocessor, or could this be a BIOS related problem? Thanks for any help. Chris