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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6311 ; Thu, 07 Jan 93 20:05:35 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu!csvbmd Organization: Central Michigan University Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 14:59:42 EST From: <CSVBMD@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Message-ID: <93007.145942CSVBMD@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: problem initializing BSD386 UNIX Lines: 14 We have successfully made up a "Tiny 386BSD Installation Floppy" and booted it. When we run the "INSTALL" utility to format the BSD386 partition and copy the installation diskette to that partition, evrything seems to work correctly, but when we boot from the hard drive itself, BSD386 goes to sleep after issuing the following message : "changing root device to as0a". Environment : 486 DX 33 Mhz, 525M SCSI hard drive, first 80 M form DOS/WINDOWS partition. Question : Is there anyway to build a 386BSD boot diskette which can transfer control to the hard drive after the bootstrap process is over? We know that we can access the hard drive from the "Tiny 386BSD Installation Floppy"... Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.