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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Boot trouble revisited Date: 26 Dec 1995 14:53:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4bp292$8q4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4bk871$2ae@dfw.nkn.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 andersen@fastlane.net (Craig G. Andersen) writes: > When the system boots it hits the floppy for about 2 seconds (based on > floppy activity light), and never returns (no boot prompt). > So as not to be premature I waited several minutes with no floppy > activity. Cache problems? Try disabling the cache. Does your EIDE install some BIOS extension in the memory < 640 KB? (Just wild guesses.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)