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- From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD & COMPAQ 486/33
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.023138.25145@super.org>
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
- References: <1992Sep7.112452.5403@csd.uch.gr>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:31:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep7.112452.5403@csd.uch.gr> kanagn@ikaros.cc.uch.gr (Kostas Anagnostakis) writes:
- >I tried to boot 386BSD on a COMPAQ 486/33 / 4 MB RAM but it didn't work.
- >It didn't even get to the "386BSD etc" notice. Has anybody out there gone
- >into the same problem ?
-
- as things currently stand compaq's won't boot it at all. any compaq.
- I only have talked to one person who has gotten it to go, one compaq
- in a room full of compaqs. nobody knows why. I looked into it but don't
- have time to fool with it; I have no documentation on the machine
- and hate debugging in that mode when I know it is unnecessary.
- I am going to drop a Kbuck on bsdi and hope they have something that works.
-
- One thing you could try that has been recommended to me is to
- junk the COMPAQ ROMS and replace them with AMI roms.
-
- If the bsdi path doesn't work I am going to rip the compaq motherboards out
- of the 3 deskpro/25 machines I have,
- replace them with cheap clone motherboards that
- work, and take the compaq motherboards out for a little target practice.
- Should be fun. Should cost < $1500.
-
- Cheap advice: if you are looking for a machine to run 386bsd, don't get a
- compaq of any stripe.
- ron
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