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From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: dist.fs boot infinity-loop
Date: 21 Nov 1992 07:22:14 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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Message-ID: <1eko36INN25l@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <BxxHtz.2sz@encore.com>
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Keywords: boot loop

In article <BxxHtz.2sz@encore.com> idequesa@encore.com (Ivan Dequesada) writes:
>
>Does anyone know the difference between BSD's dist.fs and
>LINUX's dist.fs??
>
>It seems that some PCs (Including (but not limited to) Compaq
>Systems and TI's) hang in an infinite loop when booting from
>the dist.fs diskette (3 1/2", 1.44 Mbytes).

I had a similar problem with fixit.fs.  Someone hinted to me that 
it might be because of fixit.fs corruption.  So, I freshly formatted
a diskette, re-ftp'ed and re-download it.  Then the problem was gone.

Just a possibility.

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