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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!merce From: merce@xenitec.on.ca (Jim Mercer) Subject: 386BSD: problems with Dell 450SE EISA, Adaptec 1742, etc Organization: Reptilian Research, Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 00:33:23 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep22.003323.5032@xenitec.on.ca> Lines: 34 Hardware: Dell 450SE, 486 50Mhz, EISA, 24 Meg RAM Adaptec 1742 SCSI controller WD 8013W 10baseT ethernet when i boot the Fixit disk (with debug stuff) i get: [ lots of what looks like disk sector debugging ] [ 0.1 headers ] pc0<color> ... com1 ... com2 ... fd0 ... as0 ... we0 ... npx0 at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa (???) changing root device to fd0a it then hangs, or at least appears to do nothing. any ideas? email to jim@lsuc.on.ca would be appreciated as i only have access to news via another host. (we are hoping to put news up on this 386BSD box if we can get it running 8^) thanx. -- [ Jim Mercer Reptilian Research merce@iguana.reptiles.org +1 519 893-6085 ] [ I don't want to work for a company that has a CIO. ] [ Disclaimer! I don't need no stinking Disclaimer! ]