cheng@ee.rochester.edu (Bruce Cheng) (07/08/90)
I was attempting to install Bell Technologies' System V 3.0 unix on my
Gateway 2000 386/20MHZ machine.
I did a low level format of my hard disk (Microscience ESDI drive 110 Meg)
with software stored in the Ultrastore hard disk controller.
The disk is now fresh and new. (* I assume)
I put the boot floppy from the Bell Tech disk set and reboot the machine.
What I see is:
..........
:boot /unix
The floppy drive seems to do something but the hard disk does not move at
all. After a while the machine shutdown itself (well, the screen goes
blank) as the installation manual says.
I reset the machine but the machine does not come up with the second stage
of installation, as described in the manual.
So what I wonder now is:
1) my hard disk controller is not 100 percent IBM compatible.
It's an Ultrastor disk controller. The Bell tech manual says the disk
controller must be 100% "Western Digital command set" compatible.
2) I failed to leave the hard disk in the state that the boot disk can do
it's own formatting.
3) My machine is not 100% AT compatible. (But Gateway 2000 tech supoort
confirmed that for me.)
Any opinion and advices are welcome.
Thanks.
-Bruce
cheng@ee.rochester.edu
rochester!ur-valhalla!chengmonroe@rlgvax.UUCP (Steve Monroe) (07/10/90)
In article <1990Jul8.162411.26795@ee.rochester.edu>, cheng@ee.rochester.edu (Bruce Cheng) writes: > I was attempting to install Bell Technologies' System V 3.0 unix on my > Gateway 2000 386/20MHZ machine. > > What I see is: > .......... > :boot /unix > > The floppy drive seems to do something but the hard disk does not move at > all. Something else to try. I had a similar problem -- the solution, remove the Everex EVGA card and replace it with a more "standard" video card. In my case when I would stick in floppy and boot I would get a "booting unix" message of some sort and then it would go away, floppy light on all the time but nothing else. When I took out the EVGA card and replaced it with a Paradise EGA card I started working.... =============================================================================== Steve Monroe (home) 703-430-1318 (work) 703-648-3464 (fax) 703-430-1388 (email) monroe@ropes.opcr.icl.com or !uunet!rlgvax!ropes!monroe