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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ihz.compuserve.com!mike.inhouse.compuserve.com!m.dickson From: m.dickson@csi.compuserve.com (Michael C. Dickson) Subject: Re: 386BSD won't boot with AMI BIOS/Gateway 2000 Message-ID: <m.dickson.129.719167036@csi.compuserve.com> Keywords: AMI Gateway 2000 Lines: 37 Sender: news@csi.compuserve.com (Usenet News) Organization: Systems/Monitor Group, CompuServe Incorporated. References: <1992Oct13.034643.15109@unvax.union.edu> <1992Oct14.225619.26784@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:37:16 GMT In article <1992Oct14.225619.26784@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes: >Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd >Path: ihz.compuserve.com!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!access.usask.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!rahardj >From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) >Subject: Re: 386BSD won't boot with AMI BIOS/Gateway 2000 >Message-ID: <1992Oct14.225619.26784@ccu.umanitoba.ca> >Keywords: AMI Gateway 2000 >Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca >Nntp-Posting-Host: antares.cc.umanitoba.ca >Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada >References: <1992Oct13.034643.15109@unvax.union.edu> >Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:56:19 GMT >Lines: 17 >boehme@unvax.union.edu (Eric M. Boehm) writes: > >>I have seen oblique references to a problem with AMI BIOS in other >>messages. I recently upgraded my BIOS from 030389 to 050591. 386BSD >>still won't boot. The drive light comes on and stays on. Ctrl-Alt-Del >>won't regain control -- time for the red button. > >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 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. > >-- budi >-- >Budi Rahardjo <rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca> >Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba I've had 386BSD running on several gateway 2000 machines. I did have some trouble with the ATI Ultra card (no boot) but when that was swapped out for a plain vanilla vga card everything came up fine. Perhaps the video card is your problem? Mike