tthorn@daimi.aau.dk (Tommy Thorn) (02/26/91)
Can anybody help me? I'm having a problem so strange, that even my dealer seems unable to help me. After having installed ISC 3.2, (I have a 8Mb 386sx with 387sx Adaptec 1542B CDC 178Mb and Seagate ST-1096 80Mb) I decided to make a MS-DOS partition on the ST-1096. I booted under MS-DOS, made a low-level format, and tried to boot from the floppy boot disc. The message 'Booting the UNIX system ...' pops up and after a while nothing more happens. If I pull out both discs and tries again it says (correctly) aha_init: found 0 SCSI drives. This is very strange since: 1) I haven't changed the hardware one bit, and it worked very well before. 2) Both drives works perfectly under MS-CRAP. I've tried almost anything thinkable; using fresh copies of my bootdisc; swapping the CDC and Seagate; running only with (either) one; formatting under MS-DOS ... -- Tommy Thorn email: tthorn@daimi.aau.dk Computer Science Department I SPEAK FOR MYSELF! Aarhus University DENMARK
rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky) (03/01/91)
Keywords: installation floppy boot Ye olde Boot Stops bug, eh? I can't help you directly, but I had problems with ISC 2.0.2 going to sleep during boot season, when I had an IBM AT/370 card plugged into it. I never figured out how to determine what it didn't like about the card, but removing it made the mystery I-am-going-to-sleep-for-days behavior turn into the normal I-am-going-to-sleep-until-youare-convinced- I-am-broken-then-wake-up behavior. I theenk it has to do with at/370 treatment of the address space(hole in the 640 region somewhere, perhaps?). Bob Bernecky Snake Island Research Inc.