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From: s442016@nexus.yorku.ca (Alan Li)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 0.1 Installation
Message-ID: <1992Sep24.031628.24307@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
Date: 24 Sep 92 03:16:28 GMT
References: <3g1n3w_.genie@netcom.com>
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Organization: York University, CS Dept. Toronto
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In article <3g1n3w_.genie@netcom.com> genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes:
>
>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
**********yea, happens to me too......WHY?
386 machine with 40M partition for BSD 0.1
alan LI; s442016@nexus.yorku.ca