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- From: captain@rot.qc.ca (Andrew Webster)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] boot disk does absolutely nothing on gateway 4dx33v
- Message-ID: <C1HowF.20x@rot.qc.ca>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:45:50 GMT
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- Timothy Miller (tim@news.Brown.EDU) wrote:
- > I have acquired the boot disk image for 386bsd, and no matter what I try,
- > when my system starts up, it displays all the bios messages, and then hangs
- > with the floppy drive light on. I have tried waiting for half an hour (just
- > to be on the safe side), I've tried keeping the keyboard unplugged during
- > reboot and also only unplugging it when it gets to the hang stage (because of
- > reading about gateway keyboard problems), I've tried disabling in nvram/eeprom
- > everything I can get my hands on, including setting IDE speed to slow,
- > cpu speed to slow, internal & external caching off, bios shadowing disabled,
- > ide block mode disabled, turning the ATI's memory aperture off, etc. I've
- > tried booting off of fixit as well as dist, and as well as the debug versions
- > of the bootables. I know I'm installing the disk image correctly because
- > doing the same thing with the linux disk images works perfectly (in fact linux
- > successfully installs and runs fine, without my even needing to turn anything
- > off (except gcc dies unless I turn external caching off)).
-
- Rather intteresting... I have the same problem, different hardware!
- Here's the scoop:
- 386DX-20 no cache, 4MB RAM, Logitech EGA, 80MB IDE, locks up on floppy boot
- 386DX-33 64K cache, 8MB RAM, ATI VGA Wonder, 2x100MB Rodime IDE, WD8013 works!
- 486DX-33 256K cache, 16MB RAM, ATI XL, SCSI drives, WD8013 etc etc... works!
-
- Sounds like some incompatible mother board or floppy conroller!
-
- Comments anyone?
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