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From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ``Simple'' questions ...
Date: 9 Jan 1996 15:09:10 GMT
Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN
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Jacques Legare <jacques@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> wrote:
>I did, however, have a small difficulty with the installation.  I
>installed from floppy (no CD-ROM or convenient network connection).
>The install program hung four times in a row around the ``root.flp''
>floppy.  The first two times, it hung after reading the root floppy
>for a few moments.  The third time, it hung before inserting the
>root floppy, and the fourth time, it hung in the same place as the
>first two times.  
>
>At this point, I figured I was doing something wrong, so I reset my
>CMOS settings to ``failsafe'' (I have one of those Win (lose?) BIOSs.).
>From then on, the installation went like a charm, and everything has
>worked marvelously since.  However, this has left me without a cache
>(256 kB's worth too), not to mention video and BIOS shadowing.

I had a similar problem with FreeBSd v1.1 when I upgraded to a motherboard that
had caching.  It turned out that one of the cache chips was bad.  DOS never
exercised the failure point, but OS/2 and FreeBSD did.



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