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- From: bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers)
- Subject: Problems installing/booting 386BSD
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.075634.5241@Princeton.EDU>
- Summary: System hangs after "Hit return to boot from hard drive"
- Originator: news@nimaster
- Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: ernie.princeton.edu
- Organization: Princeton University
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:56:34 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- Hi. I finally got my drive cleaned up enough to try installing 386bsd (I will
- hopefully be getting an additional, much larger (500+ MB) drive in the next
- month or so). Current system:
- Motherboard: Datawise MB486-66U w/486sx25 (running at 40) [ISA]
- Cache: 64 K
- BIOS: MR. BIOS
- RAM: 8 Meg (ShadowRAM enabled)
- IDE 42 Meg Seagate (ST157A, I think. I scavenged it out of my 286)
- Plus HardCard IIXL 105 Meg (any way to use part of this for 386bsd?)
- Archive QIC-150 SCSI drive from a SGI PI/25 (but no SCSI card yet :( )
- VGA 14" 640x480 (card supports 800x600)
- Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIP
- OS: DOS 4.01, Windoze 3.0 (rarely used),
- partial install of OS/2 2.0
- 386BSD v0.1 (7/92, downloaded off agate in late November, as I recall)
-
- What happens is that I run the install fine, but then, when it tells me to
- remove the floppy aqnd hit return to boot off the hard drive (it has changed
- the active setting to BSD), everything hangs quite thoroughly. 386bsd seems to
- ignore the ctrl-alt keys, so I have to hit the reset button to get any response
- from my system. Even after a cold boot, the BSD boot hangs. Any suggestions?
- Has anyone else seen this? I have been following this (and its previous
- incarnations) for several months now, but I don't recall anyone mentioning
- having problems quite this early in the setup (some almost like this recently,
- but not quite the same).
-
- Thanks for any help (I really want to have Unix running, so I can convince the
- CS staff that I need an ethernet connection to my room for the next semester!).
-
- -bkc
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- bkc@{phoenix|cs}.Princeton.EDU caruthrs@thumper.Princeton.EDU
- Bruce Caruthers '93 Princeton University bkc@Sgi.COM
- "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear
- never beginning to live." -- Marcus Aurelius
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