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- From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD & COMPAQ 486/33
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.135113.737@super.org>
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
- References: <1992Sep7.112452.5403@csd.uch.gr> <1992Sep8.023138.25145@super.org> <92252.095938HEUER@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:51:13 GMT
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- In article <92252.095938HEUER@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE> Stephan Heuer <HEUER@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE> writes:
- >I have 386BSD 0.1 running on a Compaq Deskpro 386/20 with 387,
- >ethernet and 60MB hard disk. 0.1 refused to boot, but I had 0.0 running
- >so I used the 0.0 boot block. I just copied the first 8k from the 0.0
- >boot disk to the 0.1 boot disk and voila ... I have *not* changed my 0.0
- >disklabel on the hard disk!
-
- I have been told that jolitz has a Compaq Deskpro 386/20, so am not
- surprised you can get going. If i use the 0.0 bootstrap on the 0.1 dist.fs,
- the 0.1 kernel comes up and init dies.
-
- So using the 0.0 boot track for 0.1 may or may not work; your mileage will
- definitely vary.
-
- note that 0.0 boot track is kind of broken anyway: it can't boot reasonably
- large kernels, i.e. kernels with NFS. And the boot block sources on 0.0
- don't build a working secondary bootstrap (primary block 0 bootstrap does
- build fine, however, once you fix /bin/ld on 0.0-- you have to take out
- a hack that makes -n not build the proper type of file).
-
- ron
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