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Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 14:59:42 EST
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: problem initializing BSD386 UNIX
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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.