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From: pdac@quantime.co.uk (Peter Da'Costa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD won't boot with AMI BIOS/Gateway 2000
Keywords: AMI Gateway 2000
Message-ID: <1992Oct15.180516.28612@quantime.co.uk>
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:05:16 GMT
References: <1992Oct13.034643.15109@unvax.union.edu> <1992Oct14.225619.26784@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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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 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 have a Gateway 2000 25MHz 386 at home. It has an AMI BIOS (I don't
know the revision date, but I bought the machine about 2 years ago).
I have been running 386BSD 0.1 fine for quite some time. The only
problems I've had with it are due to the bad sectors on my EDSI drive.

  If anyone could point me to some patches to enable bad144 to work
(especially for swap partitions) I'd be most grateful (Oh, I'd like
to have  support for two controllers too).
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