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From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Subject: Re: 386BSD won't boot with AMI BIOS/Gateway 2000
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Keywords: AMI Gateway 2000
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:34:47 GMT
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In article <1992Oct14.225619.26784@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
>boehme@unvax.union.edu (Eric M. Boehm) writes:
[...]
>I haven't seen (heard) anybody can get 386bsd up and running on a
>Gateway machine. I have posted twice, but the only responses I have
>were me too mails.
I have seen it running on a Gateway 2000 w/ Phenox BIOS - but I doubt it
has much to do with the BIOS. One of the first machines I heard that
386BSD worked with was a Gateway. This said, I also think the Gateway
label is worthless. They just go out and but a boatload of the cheapest
motherboard/cards/whatnot whenever they need more and slap their name on it.
That means one Gateway 2000 is nothing like another. It also means that
their tech-support can't be all that helpful since each month sees a new
motherboard...
>I phoned Gateway tech. rep. and he knows nothing of 386BSD.
>I guess we (gateway owner) are stuck. I guess I should stick with Linux then.
Well if you bought it recently, you should be able to return it. In fact
just letting them know that you will return it if they can't get BSD running
(or help you) may get them moving, or mabie not.
--
stripes@pix.com "Security for Unix is like
Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Multitasking for MS-DOS"
"The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise. - Larry Wall