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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:8481 comp.unix.misc:5760 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!cgl!jsrvx1.ucsf.edu!vince From: vince@jsrvx1.ucsf.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc Subject: Help with booting on a Micronics 486/33 Eisa with Future Domain TMC-168 Message-ID: <1992Dec1.090642.1@jjmvx1> Date: 1 Dec 92 17:06:42 GMT Sender: news@cgl.ucsf.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of California San Francisco Lines: 28 Has anyone succeeded in getting 386bsd to boot on a 486 with a Future Domain TMC-1680 SCSI controller card? I haven't had any success. Here's the story: I've tried booting with the original 0.1 dist.fs floppy on an Everex 386/25 with a TMC-1680, and had no problems. I didn't try installing on that machine though. I didn't see a scsi device indicated; I saw wd0. The TMC-1680 was in its default configuration. When I tried it with the dist.fs from agate.berkeley.edu/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/newbootables/cgd, it booted successfully, this time without showing a scsi device,(as0) or an IDE one (wd0) When I tried both dist.fs' on a friend's AMI 486/33? 50? ISA with a TMC-1680, the floppy boots, sees an IDE drive(shows "wd0 at 0x1f0 int 14"), identifies the other devices, and then hangs after saying "switching root device to fd0a" The same thing happens on my Micronics 486/33 EISA with a TMC-1680 in the default configuration. I know that the TMC-1680 can emulate an IDE drive for brain-dead dos applications, and I suspect this is what the kernel is seeing, but don't knoe what to do about it. I tried changing the interrupt address of the card but it didn't help. Any ideas out there? Also, who keeps the most up-to-date ftp archive of 386bsd stuff? Thanks in advance. Vince Reed vreed@jsrvx1.ucsf.edu