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- From: armhold@action.rutgers.edu (George Armhold)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Endless boot cycle- suggestions?
- Message-ID: <Aug.14.12.34.42.1992.8037@action.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 16:34:42 GMT
- Organization: DIMACS @ Rutgers University
- Lines: 37
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- I'm having problems getting 386BSD 0.1 to boot from my HD. Here's my
- configuration:
-
- ZEOS 386 SX
- 2 MB Ram
- American Megatrends BIOS
- 300MB ESDI,Adaptec controller
- Western Digital Elite16T Enet card
- DOS 5.0
-
- I've got a 32 MB DOS primary partition, and an extended partition, 75
- MB of which are for another DOS drive, and the rest to BSD. I did
- this partitioning via fdisk under DOS.
-
- When booting off of the install floppy, it right away recognized the
- partition I had allocated for BSD (magic?) and I followed the
- procedure for formatting and installation.
-
- It claimed to have formatted 214 MB pretty damn quick- about 3
- minutes. I'm suspicious. It then mounts the disk and does the
- install. "Press any key to reboot from HD". I do, and the machine
- goes into an endless boot cycle. When it tries to read the bootstrap
- code from the HD it does a hard reset, memory check, etc, and then
- loops again.
-
- I checked the partition code for the BSD partition, and sure enough
- it's set to A5. I read the "known problems" article, but didn't find
- a solution. If anyone could offer some help or suggestions I'd be
- most appreciative. I'm not intimately familiar with this hardware, so
- please forgive me if I've left out some important detail.
-
- Thanks,
- -George
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