From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 13:40:00 -0400 From: presotto@plan9.att.com presotto@plan9.att.com Subject: Suggestions for getting my PC to boot? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2295b99a-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950909174000.87C2XG4PZY0j6Bzwl5x6dbwVa437s36zSQW91vNtq-g@z> Have you checked that Linux and/or DOS can read the disk1 floppy? In particular, do they see an a:\386\init? ------ original message follows ------ >>From cse.psu.edu!9fans-outgoing-owner Sat Sep 9 12:34:03 EDT 1995 Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <45812>; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 12:24:18 -0400 Received: from goggins.bath.ac.uk ([138.38.32.13]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <45823>; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 11:55:08 -0400 Received: from bath.ac.uk (actually host solomon.bath.ac.uk) by goggins.bath.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Sat, 9 Sep 1995 16:54:49 +0100 Original-Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@bath.ac.uk (9fans@cse.psu.edu) PP-warning: Illegal Received field on preceding line To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 19:49:50 -0400 From: Troy Smith Message-ID: <42qkqu$puc@sequoia.idir.net> Organization: Internet Direct Communications -- (913) 841-2200 Subject: Suggestions for getting my PC to boot? Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. Sender: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu 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.