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- From: wheeler@jeckle.mitre.org (Brien L. Wheeler)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: patched bootables on agate...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.191215.29393@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 19:12:15 GMT
- References: <14gb3kINNlsr@agate.berkeley.edu> <explorer.711733580@tbird.cc.iastate.edu>
- Sender: wheeler@jeckle (Brien L. Wheeler)
- Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
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- In article <explorer.711733580@tbird.cc.iastate.edu>, explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff) writes:
- >
- > I tried these disks, but I still can't install BSD 0.1 on my Zenith
- > Z-386/25.
- >
- > Machine info:
- > 150M ESDI drive, wd ethernet card irq 2/9, vga, com 1, com 2.
- > 386DX 25Mhz, no fpu.
- >
- > Install info:
- > install using the patched and non-patched dist.fs disks. When
- > installing, it seems to write to the hard drive fine. If I
- > hit ^C when it wants to reboot, I can mount the filesystem and
- > everything seems to work. However, it locks during reboot.
- > The keyboard lights flash, and the floppy light stays on. It
- > requires a power cycle to make it come back to life.
-
- I too have had problems loading 386BSD onto the drive in my Zenith Z-386
- PC. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the PC architecture to
- adequately describe my system, but it includes a WD8013 Elite at IRQ 2,
- 5 MB RAM, a Paradise VGA card, a 387 FPU, and an 80 MB HD (don't know what
- kind). I have the same problems as Michael Graff -- It just won't boot
- off the hard disk, even though it appears to be installed correctly.
-
- I did some fooling around with defining the whole disk as an extended
- DOS partition, changing the partition tag to A5 and attempting the install,
- but it still did the exact same thing when attempting to boot off the HD.
-
- Brien
-
-