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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!genie From: genie@netcom.com (The Genie) Subject: 0.1 Installation Message-ID: <3g1n3w_.genie@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 10:24:36 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 32 Hi. I just tried installing 386BSD 0.1 into my 386-33 8 meg system, with little success. The Tiny-BSD disk booted normally, and with little problem. Once I installed the systel using the "install" script, and rebooted, the computer goes on into an endless cycle of reboots. It reboots, shows a couple of system configuration things (western digital controller, Conner IDE, etc). Until then, it seems fine. However 10 seconds into the reboot, I get this message which flashes by very quickly due to the automatic rebooting. I was finally able to piece what the error was by turning the turbo off of the machine and rebooting many times, catching glimpes of the message each time. This is what it said: The operating system is saving a copy of RAM to device 1, offset 0 (hit any key to abort)[amount left to save(MB)] - device bad system rebooting Is it trying to say that my memory is bad? I do not think this is the case, since I have successfully used DOS, Windows, OS/2 2.0, and Linux without any problems so far. And memory check seems to detect no error either. My system is a 386-33 Intel 120 Connor IDE 8 megs RAM, with 2 floppies, drive A=1.22meg B=1.4meg I have installed a Paradise PVGA card with 512k. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Gene