On Tue, Mar 2, 1999 11:17 AM, Wenchi Liao
<mailto:wliao@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>Booting from the floppy takes an incredibly long time. After reading
>the floppy, the kernel detects the cpu, memory, bus, and ports. All of
>this is done at a fair pace (no more than 10 seconds) The kernel then
>detects the hard drive at wd0, finds the geometry and size of drive,
>and freezes for about 5 minutes. Then a line about npx0 at a port using
>exception 16 and the rest of the boot process (about 10 seconds again).
>This happens if I boot off of the installed kernel as well.
>
>What is going on?
>
See if auto detecting the drives in the BIOS helps, 
eliminate any you don't have. 

BA-


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