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In article <C1HowF.20x@rot.qc.ca> captain@rot.qc.ca (Andrew Webster) writes:
>Timothy Miller (tim@news.Brown.EDU) wrote:
>> I have acquired the boot disk image for 386bsd, and no matter what I try,
>> when my system starts up, it displays all the bios messages, and then hangs
>> with the floppy drive light on. I have tried waiting for half an hour (just
...
>> of the bootables.  I know I'm installing the disk image correctly because
>> doing the same thing with the linux disk images works perfectly (in fact linux
>> successfully installs and runs fine, without my even needing to turn anything
>> off (except gcc dies unless I turn external caching off)).

Having to turn off external cache doesn't sound too good...

>
>Rather intteresting... I have the same problem, different hardware!
>Here's the scoop:
>386DX-20 no cache, 4MB RAM, Logitech EGA, 80MB IDE, locks up on floppy boot
>Comments anyone?

Have both of you tried the NEW bootables, located at
agate.berkeley.edu:~unofficial/patch-kit/*.fs-pk-0.2 ?

If not, give them a try.  There are some boot fixes in them that
allow MOST machines to boot, although there is still some timing
problems with recognizing certain IDE drives because of non-standard
controllers.

Also, if you can't get it to boot after trying the new boot images, 
try removing all of the non-necessary hardware from your machine.
I had a problem when I first installed 386BSD, and it turned out to
be a mis-configured SERIAL/GAME/PARALLEL card which worked fine under
DOS but 386BSD needed it configured correctly.

I have also seen problems with SoundBlaster's, and other non-standard
cards..


Nate
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