* Suggestions for getting my PC to boot?
@ 1995-09-08 23:49 Troy
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From: Troy @ 1995-09-08 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
I'm trying to install the 4-disk set on my PC, but am dying during
the boot process. I've tried three different versions of disk1 and
used four different methods (raw floppy boot, running b.com from
a fully-loaded DOS, running from the recommended bare config, and
running from a minimal DOS boot (hitting l-shift @boot)), but it
always dies in the same place with the same message:
2053 free pages, 8212K bytes, swap 45972K, highwater 408K, headroom 508K
CPU is a 66 MHz Intel486DX (cpuid: ax 400 dx 0)
fs...time...boot: /386/init: file does not exist
panic: boot process died: unknown
Then a table of 25 hex values followed by "exiting".
My system is an AMD 486DX2/66 with 12Mb RAM, 256K cache, two Conner
CFS420A hard disks, Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428, and various other things.
My motherboard is one of those strange ones with both types of SIMM
slots (2 72-pin and 4 30-pin), with all 6 slots filled. Linux has
run on this system, so it can't be too bad.
Any hints on what would cause the preceeding will be appreciated,
even if it means that I can't run it.
Thanks,
Troy Smith
P.S. As an additional test, I pulled the 4 1Mb SIMMS to see if that
would help. No luck.
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* Suggestions for getting my PC to boot?
@ 1995-09-09 17:40 presotto
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From: presotto @ 1995-09-09 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
Have you checked that Linux and/or DOS can read the disk1
floppy? In particular, do they see an a:\386\init?
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I'm trying to install the 4-disk set on my PC, but am dying during
the boot process. I've tried three different versions of disk1 and
used four different methods (raw floppy boot, running b.com from
a fully-loaded DOS, running from the recommended bare config, and
running from a minimal DOS boot (hitting l-shift @boot)), but it
always dies in the same place with the same message:
2053 free pages, 8212K bytes, swap 45972K, highwater 408K, headroom 508K
CPU is a 66 MHz Intel486DX (cpuid: ax 400 dx 0)
fs...time...boot: /386/init: file does not exist
panic: boot process died: unknown
Then a table of 25 hex values followed by "exiting".
My system is an AMD 486DX2/66 with 12Mb RAM, 256K cache, two Conner
CFS420A hard disks, Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428, and various other things.
My motherboard is one of those strange ones with both types of SIMM
slots (2 72-pin and 4 30-pin), with all 6 slots filled. Linux has
run on this system, so it can't be too bad.
Any hints on what would cause the preceeding will be appreciated,
even if it means that I can't run it.
Thanks,
Troy Smith
P.S. As an additional test, I pulled the 4 1Mb SIMMS to see if that
would help. No luck.
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