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- From: sxjcb@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386bsd 0.1 - Speed dependent boot problem
- Message-ID: <sxjcb.31.711750643@skyfire.uacn.alaska.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 20:30:43 GMT
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- In article <greg.711746666@hibp2.ecse.rpi.edu> greg@ecse.rpi.edu (Greg) writes:
- >Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- >Path: raven.alaska.edu!decwrl!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!greg
- >From: greg@ecse.rpi.edu (Greg)
- >Subject: 386bsd 0.1 - Speed dependent boot problem
- >Message-ID: <greg.711746666@hibp2.ecse.rpi.edu>
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- >Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:24:26 GMT
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- >I seem to have a problem booting that is timing dependant. My machine will
- >boot off wd0 about 95 % the time when in low speed mode. In high speed (33MHz)
- >it boots only about 20% of the time.
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- >My equipment:
- >386-33 Advanced Integration Research motherboard (1 CHIPS & 2 ETEQ VLSIs)
- >Quantum 105lp IDE
- >Trident 8900 vga
- >Novell Ne2000 ethernet
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-
- >I started to poke around in the boot stuff. I put a printf at the begining of
- >boot.c. I rebuilt wdboot and bootwd and then re-disklabeled. I verified that
- >boot.c was not reached when the boot failed. When it succeeded, I saw my
- >debugging message. My 80x06 assembly is a bit rusty, so I hesitated to
- >plunge into wdbootblk.c. Before I do this, I wonder if anyone can give me any
- >possible stategies.
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- > Thanks, Greg greg@megas.ecse.rpi.edu
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- Perhaps. but not necessarily clockspeed alone. My 386/25 always boots
- correctly, while my 486/25 boots maybe one in eight times......
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- - jcb
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