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- From: dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu (Don Osburn)
- Subject: Help, Unable to install on Tandon Hardware
- Message-ID: <dosburn.724562400@cwis>
- Summary: Unable to install 386bsd on Tandon
- Keywords: Hardware, Tandon, Architecture, install, boot
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:20:00 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- I have been attempting to boot my Tandon 386sx using the dist.fs image
- and it will not work. I did a binary download of the image from three
- different places, and used rawrite.exe to write it to a 3.5" floppy
- each time, but to no avail. When I boot the system, it starts ok (I
- guess), queries the A:\ drive, then just hangs leaving the A: drive
- spinning infinitely. I get a black screen with a flashing cursor,
- but nothing else.
-
- I called the Tandon company long distance, and after waiting a LONG
- time, I finally got to speak to a rather rude person that gave me the
- following answers to my inquiries:
-
- The Tandon 386 Option has a "standard 16 bit AT bus architecture," and
- a "standard IBM compatible BIOS." Here is the catch, when I asked about
- the chipset on the board, I was told that it is a "Tandon proprietary
- chipset, made by Tandon." I have 4 MB of memory installed, and a 105MB
- IDE hardrive.
-
- I would really like to work on porting the 386BSD to this machine, but
- I am going to need some serious help. I have relegated myself to
- perusing the articles in DDJ to find some answers. In one of the early
- articles (sorry, I forgot the date), there is mention of some tools that
- were created to "check out" a systems configuration, hardware, etc., to
- determine any idiosyncracies that would need to be resolved with a
- system in order to port the bsd to the machine. Does anyone know
- anything about this? Where can I get these tools, and how do I use
- them? The Tandon company does not seem to be very willing to give me
- much information about the internal hardware of this machine!
-
- I guess I should ask if anyone else has managed to port the bsd to
- a Tandon machine. Am I just being a total klutz, or is there something
- different about this hardware? I would be willing to spring for the
- phone calls to Tandon if someone can tell me more specific questions
- that I should ask to resolve the problem. I admit that I am rather
- new to this, (I am a graduate student that has spent too much time
- in the theory, and not enough in the applications), but I am willing
- to put in the effort if someone can point me in a direction. :-)
-
- If anyone has any information that can help, PLEASE contact me soon.
- Thanks in advance. Take care.
- Don
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