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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Just hangs during boot floppy -- is EISA the problem?
Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:11:30 GMT
Message-ID: <BznD77.L6B@rex.uokhsc.edu>
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My friend has a 486-33MHZ 16 MB EISA/FAST SCSI (AMI motherboard
and SCSI adapter). It sounds like the machine to run UNIX on. Well,
I tried running both 386BSD and LINUX and they both seem to die
in the same places -- around the disk drive stage. 386BSD stops
right after it is changes root device to the floppy. LINUX stops
right after it figures out that my SCSI adapter is Adaptec 1542 compatible.
Is there any hope? I would like to get his machine up on UNIX
(I would do mine, but my machine needs disk space...), but I don't want
to install SCO (which is sitting right next to me...boxes of floppies
and I don't get source.) Any suggestions?
It doesn't appear the I can disable the EISA stuff. Are we out of
luck?
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen
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Benjamin Z. Goldsteen