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- From: toma@swsrv1.cirr.com (Tom Armistead)
- Subject: Re: Can't boot ISC 2.0.2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.150321.1696@swsrv1.cirr.com>
- Keywords: ISC 2.0.2 boot
- Organization: Software Services; Garland, Tx
- References: <1992Aug26.015704.8894@sun490.fdu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:03:21 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Aug26.015704.8894@sun490.fdu.edu> tempel@sun490.fdu.edu (Philippe N. Tempel) writes:
- [Stuff deleted]
- >After I cold boot with the ISC boot disk in drive A, I get the message
- >"Booting the UNIX system..." and see some disk activity. Finally, after
- >4 minutes the screen goes blank and the system hangs in limbo. Any ideas
- >before I take the motherboard back? I did disable caching, shadow ROM and
- >shadow RAM.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Philippe
-
- If you have a parallel port with no printer attached, or a printer attached
- but turned off, this will happen. After you get everything installed, the
- problem goes away...
-
- Hope this helps,
- Tom
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