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From: rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen)
Subject: Re: HP Vectra and 386BSD, hope it's not a FAQ
Message-ID: <1992Sep18.035640.20915@news2.cis.umn.edu>
Keywords: HP Vectra
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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1992 03:56:40 GMT
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In article <1992Sep15.172153.2103@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>This is very exciting... I haven't had any feedback on my general fix of this
>problem yet!
>
>Please try this fixed dist.fs and report back how they work for you. I am
>very interested in how it will perform on a real Vectra *without* changing
>the CMOS setup.
Well I have an OLD HP Vectra that I had just about given up hope on. I bought
this machine for the sole purpose of hacking 386BSD on but haven't had any
success with it. I tried the solution the guy from HP suggested about going
into the special 'yada' mode in the system setup, but all that did was make
my system unable to boot off the floppy drive (makes it kind of had to
initially boot the system without the floppy drive working). After not having
success with changing the system setup I pulled down Terry's fixed bootable
and low and behold the system booted. Yippie! So yes Terry, your fixed
dist.fs does work on a real (old) HP Vectra. Are the patches to the kernel
available in your patchkit for the relaxed cmos memory checking?
If anyone with a Vectra can suggest what I might have done wrong in the system
setup to make the system unable to boot from the floppy drive, I'd be interested
in hearing from you. I'd like to try to boot the machine with the standard
kernel.
-Rick Odeen
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making two backup copies, so the effective | rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu
price can be under $60." | rutgers!umn-cs!buddha!rodeen
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