386 Boot problem

[Curtiss WC 67625]

In article <42700018 at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> dpgerdes at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>    I am having a problem with the boot program on V/386 3.0e.1.  I am
>not sure if it is a hardware or software problem tho.  I have a Compaq
>386/25 model 300 with a combination hard/floppy ESDI controller.
>Approximately 60% of the time I boot the machine, it gets as far as 
>displaying the dots (............) and then hangs before displaying
>the  boot:  prompt.  The machine at that point requires a cold boot.
>The problem happens with equal frequency for both warm and cold boots.
>
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We had this same problem with a 16 MHz Delta Data (Televideo) machine.
The culprit turned out to be that the bus speed was set to 8 MHz.  When
I slowed it down to 5.3 (I think that's right) MHz (and left the CPU at
16 MHz) it booted fine.  

>    Thanks,
>
>    -dave gerdes

No problem.
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