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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: problems bringing up 386BSD 0.1
- References: <RAEBURN.92Jul17141049@cambridge.cygnus.com> <michaelv.711604391@help.cc.iastate.edu> <greg.711645054@hibp1.ecse.rpi.edu> <1992Jul20.212320.20786@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 10:00:33 GMT
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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- In <1992Jul20.212320.20786@hemlock.cray.com> overby@cray.com (Glen Overby) writes:
-
- >I, too, am a member of the "It Won't Boot" clan.
-
- >System:
- >Megatronics 386SX-16
- >387SX (yup, bought one just for 0.0)
- >4MB RAM
- >VGA monitor (SEFCO is on the manual; Trident is the Copyright in the ROMs)
- >Seagate ST-02 SCSI / Floppy
- >1.44MB floppy
-
- >When I boot, 386bsd thinks it recognises a WD controler out there (there is
- >none) and hangs after mounting /dev/fd0a as root. It's my guess that it's
- >waiting for the non-existant ISA disk to respond. I've pulled all cards but
- >the Seagate and VGA. I think I'll try recompiling without a WD controler at
- >all (that didn't work under 0.0, but this ISN'T 0.0) or hard-code the driver
- >to ignore what it thinks is a controler.
-
- >Glen Overby
-
- I never read something about ST-02 SCSI support, the installation file
- reads:
- "....This release supports a 386/486 SX/DX ISA (ATBUS) sys-
- tem, with the traditional hard and floppy disk controller
- (MFM, ESDI, IDE, SCSI - Adaptec 1542, RLL). Also, the usual
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- display adapters (MDA/CGA/VGA/HGC) are supported, along with
- the serial communications ports (COM1 and COM2) and parallel
- ..."
-
- Not a help, but a hint
-
- Holger
-
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