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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] on HP Vectra?
Date: 28 Nov 1992 01:40:14 GMT
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In article <1992Nov27.234954.12618@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu
(A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
> In article <1f652iINNai2@life.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
> (Charles Hannum) writes:
>> 
>> I have a HP Vectra 486 on which I would like to run 386BSD.  "Out of
>> the box," this does not work.  When I boot the Tiny 386BSD kernel off
>> the hard disk, it just hangs.
>
> Any kernel on a dist.fs that has patch 3 installed will fix this
> problem.  There are several on agate, and a couple on rachel.

I tried /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/newbootables/cgd/dist.fs (I
think), with the same result.

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