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- From: gabrius@herman.gem.valpo.edu (David Gabrius)
- Subject: Re: 0.99 boot problems (was Re: sls install problems)
- References: <78369@hydra.gatech.EDU> <dpn2.208.724469868@po.CWRU.Edu>
- Sender: David Gabrius (gabrius@gem.valpo.edu)
- Organization: Brainpower R&D
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:08:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.020848.27723@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Summary: problems booting 0.99
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- In article <dpn2.208.724469868@po.CWRU.Edu> dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:
- >In article <78369@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin) writes:
- >> I rebooted using the boot floppy and I got the initial boot screen
- >>but it stoped there. This is what it said. Some stuff is abbrieviated:
- >>
- >>It found all three of my serial ports.
- >>8 virtual consoles
- >>lp_init: lp0 exists(0)
- >>scsi: 0 hosts
- >>scsi: detected 0 disks 0 tapes 0 cd-roms
- >>memory 7168k/8192k available 540k kernel 384k reserved 100k data
- >>Floppy drive(s) fd0 is 1.2m (should it have found my 1.44m floppy)
- >>floppy: FDC version 0x90
- >>sock_init: initializing family 1 (AF-UNIX)
- >>sock_init: initializing family 2 (AF-INET)
- >>Loopback device init
- >>Warning WD8013 board not found at i/0 280
- >>hda
- >> my primary partition dos
- >> my extended partition
- >> 5 my logical dos drive
- >> 6 my linux filesystem
- >> 7 my linux swap
- >> (* all number are correct for these partitions*)
- >>partition table ok
- >>general protection 0000
- >>EIP: 0008: 0000B6C4
- >>EFLAGS: 00010286
- >>fs: 0017
- >>base: C0000000, limit 000A0000
- >>pid: 1, process nr: 1
- >>8b 13 85 dZ 74 27 83 3a 02 74
- >>
- >>
- >>it hangs at this point?
- >
- >I get the strong impression that a fair number of people are having problems
- >of this nature. I get the same message when I try to boot off of a disk with
- >0.99 installed on it. (I'm using 0.98p5 right now.) What is going on? Has
- >anyone encountered this and solved it?
- >
- >Please post rather than mail since this seems to be a common problem right
- >now.
- >
- >Thanks in advance for any help -- I'd love to get 0.99 running before I have
- >to leave for vacation!
- >-----
- >Damien Neil dpn2@po.cwru.edu "Until somebody debugs reality, the best
- >Case Western Reserve University I can do is a quick patch here and there."
- >CMPS/EEAP double majoring masochist - Erik Green
-
- I've gotten *very* similar errors when I've tried to boot with 0.99.
- I'm also knocked back to 0.98.5. If machine-specific info is required
- don't hestitate to ask me what hardware I've got...
-
-
- --
- David Gabrius gabrius@gem.valpo.edu
- Pro Student, Computer Engineering perfessr@imsa.edu (IMSA '90)
- "And you can find/Your own way out/You can build/And I can will..." -U2
- "You miss too much these days if you stop to think..." -U2 (again)
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