Subject: Re: NetBSD on a IBM PS/2 57 SX
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/20/2003 23:21:05
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"Bert Rodiers" <bert@nescio.info> wrote:

> I have an old IBM PS/2 57 SX with a MCA bus and 8 MB RAM that I want
> to reanimate. I tried to install NetBSD 1.6 for the i386 architecture
> (the boot-ps2.fs boot-disk), but when I a start the computer with this
> boot-disk I always get: "Boot fail". I copied the image on different
> disks (with rawrite32) but each time I get the same error message.

The CMOS  battery is probably unloaded and probably unusable. Have you
tried to boot from the PS/2 system disk and refresh the CMOS data esp.
system time? Maybe you need to get a new battery before you can boot at
all.

Christian

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