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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 19:45:04 GMT
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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.

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