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- From: barnesdo@CS.ColoState.EDU (douglas barnes)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: One booting success, one failure
- Message-ID: <Jul31.001629.32070@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:16:29 GMT
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department
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- A booting success and a failure (tried three different boot diskettes
- on two different systems, all worked on one, none worked on the other).
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- Diskettes used:
- dist.fs (Jollitz .1.24), dist.fs, (cgd) fixit.fs (cgd)
-
- Symptoms:
- Copyright notice appears, disk access light stays on, cursor blinks,
- nothing else ever happens. I think I have seen a similar problem on
- this group but not the solution. Tried all three diskettes, disabled or
- disconnected all optional hardware, disabled various CMOS settings.
- All three diskettes had exact same problem.
-
- Failed to boot on:
- 486/33mhz OPTI-486WB with 8MB RAM
- OPTI chipset, AMI BIOS (6/6/91)
- "Groundhog Graphics" ET4000 SVGA card
- Quantum 234mb IDE drive
- 1.2mb and 1.44mb drives (1.2mb is boot)
- All serial and parallel cards removed after initial failure
- All "shadow" options disabled in CMOS after initial failure
- All caches disabled in CMOS after initial failure
- Speed reduced to "16mhz" after additional failures
-
- Same diskettes booted just fine on:
- 386/25mhz no-name board with 4mb RAM (so Taiwanese the "manual" is
- in Chinese...)
- OPTI chipset, AMI BIOS (ca. 1989)
- "Tronics" ET3000
- Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter
- Quantum 120mb SCSI drive
- generic 2serial/1parallel card
-
- Any ideas on this mysterious failure would be greatly appreciated. When
- the larger hard drive arrives, I can start hacking but until then...
-
- doug
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- douglas barnes, barnesdo@CS.ColoState.EDU
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