On 27-Feb-98 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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 ...

I've tried it with both now. Didn't seem to make any difference.

> 
>> [...]
>> 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 ?

I don't know. I'll check when I get home. It did work fine with
v1.2 though.

THanks,
james

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