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- From: duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk (Andy Duplain)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD won't boot off Compaq 386sx/16
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.081744.7709@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 08:17:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.190759.8713@hotb.sub.org> <1992Aug19.144226.7836@super.org>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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- In article <1992Aug19.144226.7836@super.org> rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
- >
- >yup, 0.0 dist.fs boots fine, but you can not build a boot
- >track for floppy from 0.0, nor can you boot 0.1 dist.fs at all.
- >You are not alone. something weird about compaqs, i have heard about
- >this from 486, 386, everybody with one of those !@#$#@$! compaqs.
- >There is one guy i have heard from, who has many compaqs, and precisely
- >one of these machines will boot 0.1! it is in no known way different.
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- This may be the same for Zenith PCs also... 0.1 boots from some
- older Zenith machines (386DX and 386SX 16MHz), but not the newer
- 386SX 20MHz... bummer. Has anyone managed to get 0.1 booting on
- the newer Zeniths ???
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- Andy Duplain, BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK. duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk
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