di@hstbme.mit.edu (David Israel) (02/24/90)
I'm trying to bring SysV/386 v3.0 up on a Taiwanese clone system. The motherboard is supposedly a "Dyna" if that name rings a bell; it's running at 24 MHz, has 4Mb RAM, and a Phoenix Bios which I believe is not their newest -- it signs on as version 1.10 02. The disk controller is a Western Digital WD1006-SR2 (RLL, 1:1). If it makes any difference, there is no 387 installed. Needless to say, it all works under DOS, but it won't make it through the SysV "Build Disk" -- it starts to boot /unix, crunches for about a minute or so, then hangs with the message: PANIC: trap type 0xE followed by a dump of the registers. This behaviour is repeatable. I have seen postings on comp.unix.i386 about problems with ISC on motherboards with earlier Phoenix bioses. Has anybody had the same experience under Microport, or better yet, anybody know the definitive reason for this problem? Thanks. David Israel (di@hstbme.mit.edu) USnail: MIT 20A-113, Cambridge, MA 02139