help ... NBIC present (?)

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From: Zenon Fortuna
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 23:01

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I am trying to install a new version of Operating System on a NextCube Turbo
system.
For this purpose I wanted to boot from a standalone (bootable) floppy.
After hitting Command+` and then typing "bfd" the booting process starts,
but quickly hangs with the message

	NBIC present

I have tried to boot from the floppy attached to the NS3.0 CD-ROM, from the
CD-ROM alone, and finally tried to boot in the "single user" mode, by
typing

  bsd -s

All the time I get a few lines (successful test of the Memory) and the dreadful

	NBIC preset

(and hang).

I can still boot from the hard drive, without apparent problems.

What is going on ?

To make the picture more clear, I have booted from the floppy a couple
hours ago and had started a disk dump backup to the DAT tape.
After a while the system crashed to the panic. (I did not note
the messages, alas).
I have tried to reboot from the floppy again, then tried to use another
bootable floppy and finally the CD-ROM.

Does anybody know what to do in such a situation ?

Thank you for help ...

	-Z.

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Subject: help ... NBIC present (?)
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