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From: jabbott
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1 on a AMD468DX4-100
Date: 12 Apr 1996 23:00:24 GMT
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j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>domand@mail.direct.ca writes:
>> I'm trying to install FreeBSD onto a 486DX4-100 on a 
>> machine at work.  When I insert the boot disk with the 
>> installation kernel in the machine, it gets to the boot prompt 
>> but as soon as the kernel starts to load the machine does a hard 
>> reset.
>
>What's ``starts to load'' for you?  You mean ``starts to run'' (i.e.,
>the ``twiddle'' stopped turning)?
>
>I suspect memory problems.

I would aggree.  Just this past week I was working on a brand new Gateway 
that had windows 3.1 on it.  I was supposed to install windows 95.  It 
was one of the really fast pentiums. It did not have to be delivered to 
its final owner for a couple of weeks and so I tried to install bsd on 
it.  I could not get it to run.  No way, no how.  I fiddled around with 
it for two weeks.  No luck. It would do the same thing that this guy 
discribes, the twiddle would spin for 10-15 seconds and then it would 
hard reset. 

I had to get it delivered, so I set about doing the win 95 install.  I 
could not get that to install either.  I had tons of really odd errors 
and lock ups.  Ended up that I swapped out the SIMMS and then it worked 
perfect.  I did not have time to go back and try a bsd install but I bet 
it would have worked.
--ja