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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!stanford.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] on HP Vectra? Date: 28 Nov 1992 19:45:04 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1f8i80INNj63@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <1992Nov27.234954.12618@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1f6iluINNhfv@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov28.084355.19188@fcom.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu In article <1992Nov28.084355.19188@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. > > For obvious reasons (like the other 56 patches), [...] Using my other machine, I built a new kernel, with all 58 patches. It still doesn't work. I'm pretty sure the bootstrapper is hosed. I'll look into it tomorrow. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!