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- From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 installed on DECstation 325
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.174641.15142@gateway.novell.com>
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- References: <1992Jul30.070050.194@rdg.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:46:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.070050.194@rdg.dec.com> hitchens@untadh.enet.dec.com (Francis J. Hitchens) writes:
- >I have installed 386BSD on a DECstation 325, a 386 with connors
- >CP30104 and WD8003EP ethernet card.
- >
- >First try was on a 40mb partition, with the patched dist.fs from
- >agate.berkley.edu . The system part came up after the INSTALL reboot,
- >but only as far as printing the ethernet device info, then it crashed
- >with some vm_bla... error, it was too fast for me to read.
- >
- >I then installed on the whole disk, and it reboots ok without
- >crashing. Anybody know why this is so and how to fix it, as I will
- >have to put DOS back on the whole machine soon if I can't reserve 40mb
- >for 386BSD alone ?
-
- Number one cause of this problem: Your swap partition isn't on an even
- boundry. Make sure your 386BSD partion starts on an even boundry.
-
- -- Terry
-