On Feb 26, James Burton wrote
> (from the boot floppy)
> 
> umount /mnt ; cd /usr/mdec ; ./installboot biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a
> 
> cute but frightening that installboot is a symlink to /bin/cat
> 
> This would not boot at all. So I put the old v1.2 boot block back.
> This at least booted.

Hum, I wonder if you should't have had /mnt mounted ...

> [...]
> aic0 at isa0 port 0x340-0x35f irq 11
> scsibus0 at aic0: 8 targets
> [...]
> Which is correct as far as I can tell. But whenever I do anything to
> access sd0 or sd1 it hangs. no response to signals.

Just a guess: did you say in your bios that irq11 is used by isa ?

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