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From: gmann@haven.ios.com (Glen Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Boot fails at npx0
Date: 22 Feb 1996 20:36:27 GMT
Organization: Phrantic Physics
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Hello folks.
I'm installing FreeBSD 2.1.0 on a Pentium 60 and the boot sequence fails
during the hardware probe at the npx0 line. I get
npx0 on motherboard
npx0 INT 16 interface
and the machine locks. According to Norton Diags (DOS) I have
BIOS: AMI Monday July 25, 1994
Pentium 60
Coprocessor non-Intel 80387
<more info...>
Other: Bus = ISA
<more info...>
Real Time Clock Available
Now when I run the Norton Test Suite, it tells me that the CPU is OK, the
NPU, is OK, but that the Interrupt Controller: IRQ not receivfed from
Real Time Clock.
Anybody have any idea whatsw wrong? This particular PC has run with less
than steller performance as a Wincows machine. It the coprocessor broken?
Any ideas or a sledgehammer in the mail are appreciated!
Glen
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