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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!cs.utk.edu!cs!larson From: larson@cs.utk.edu (Chris Larson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ``Simple'' questions ... Date: 17 Jan 1996 04:50:16 GMT Organization: CS Labs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Lines: 30 Message-ID: <LARSON.96Jan16235016@hydra1a.cs.utk.edu> References: <DKtpAr.6F@info.physics.utoronto.ca> <4cu0em$1n1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra1a.cs.utk.edu In-reply-to: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu's message of 9 Jan 1996 15:09:10 GMT In article <4cu0em$1n1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) writes: 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. I agree that it sounds a lot like a bad cache. You can run without one but it'll be terribly slow compared to with it. chris -- Chris Larson larson@cs.utk.edu Lab Assistant-Backups Computer Science Dept. University of Tennessee- Knoxville