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From: sherrod@lithium.asyluminc.com ((null))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: netbsd 1.1 i386 install help needed
Date: 1 Aug 1996 17:19:49 GMT
Organization: Asylum Inc.
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<sherrod@lithium.asyluminc.com> wrote:
>	dumping to dev 201 offset 0
>	dump area unavailable
>	rebooting
>And then the machine reboots.  Anyone know what
>the problem might be?

First, thanks for everyone's help.  Andrew Wheadon 
<andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de> suggestion turned
out to be the problem:

>Looks like problems with your mainboard to me.
>Try setting BIOS-defaults i.e. turning off caches,
>and disabling every nifty feature, enhanced setting
>it has.

I also recreated the kernel copy and install disks.
After turning off all BIOS options, things worked fine.

		-- Bruce