Re: [TCLUG:11541] Little Ol' Install

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

Phil M. wrote:
>>         I've got a 486/33 at home, which refuses to boot Linux or OpenBSD.
>> DOS will boot and run fine, tho. I have no idea why. 
>I'd take it off your hands if you really don't want it.  The parts can't
>all be bad, or if I get it doing anything, you can have it back.
        I'll bring it to the next TCLUG meeting then.
        I've kind of plundered it for parts already, actually. I think it
used to be a 486/100,12MB/540MB; but the mobo was crappy --I think it has
4MB built-in RAM, and only 2 SIMM slots (it's a gov't auction NEC from
Wright County). so I grabbed the cpu, 8MB SIMM and the HDD for another
machine. (I think I put a 120MB HDD in there as a replacement).
        I've tried it with a couple different SIMMs, just to see if it's a
memory problem; but it always gives me something like "priveledged
instruction fault in supervisor mode" fatal error; both with Linux and
OpenBSD boot floppies (just bare kernels on floppy; not trying to load a
ramdisk or anything).
        DOS seems to boot fine, tho. 

side note: if I ever get *really* bored sometime, I'll have to see if I can
make a win3.11 single-floppy set. ;> I know I got one down to about 5MB of
files, uncompressed. with a bit of poking and scraping I might be able to
make a compressed file of all of it fit on a 1.7MB floppy...

Carl Soderstrom
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Minnesota DHIA		Buffalo, MN	
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