From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards) Subject: Re: Just hangs during boot floppy -- is EISA the problem? Date: 25 Dec 1992 00:30:10 GMT
ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:
> My friend has a 486-33MHZ 16 MB EISA/FAST SCSI (AMI motherboard
> and SCSI adapter). It sounds like the machine to run UNIX on. Well,
> I tried running both 386BSD and LINUX and they both seem to die
> in the same places -- around the disk drive stage. 386BSD stops
> right after it is changes root device to the floppy. LINUX stops
> right after it figures out that my SCSI adapter is Adaptec 1542 compatible.
Try to disable all cachable areas in the cmos-setup. I heard a lot of
problems with these cache-areas set on.
Michael