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- From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Subject: New hints for people having trouble booting 386BSD 0.1
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:57:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.055753.5117@NeoSoft.com>
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- A couple of booting successes tonight:
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- A 50 MHz 486 with UMC chipset and AMI BIOS
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- A fairly old 33 MHz 386 with Chips chipset and AMI BIOS
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- I was having a lot of trouble booting these guys. The 486 would hang at
- the probe, the 386 would just spin and never do anything.
-
- Well, the 386 had a scratchpad RAM option, it could be "type 1", using stack
- at 0:300, or "type 2", which said "1K DOS". Setting it to "1K DOS" made it go.
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- Similarly the 486 had an option on where to put the type 47 disk definition
- RAM area (they're both SCSI systems) at 0:300 or "1K DOS", so they're doing
- the same thing but the newer BIOS is more descriptive. Anyway, once again,
- 1K DOS and it launched.
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- Boot the fixit disk, pull the OS down over ethernet and, voila, 100,002
- 386BSD systems ;-)
-
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