INTEL V5 Rel 4

[Wiljo Heinen]

larry at nstar (Larry Snyder) writes:

>We can't get it to boot on this machine (which runs 386/ix just fine).  
>Specifics - 33 mhz 386 with 12 megs of ram (we went down to 8 megs to
>see if the problem cleared up without luck), Adaptec 1542B, 3 SCSI drives,
>and assorted other boards which we pulled to see if they were the problem.

>The Adaptec 1542 boot disks starts to boot, puts up the copyright notices,
>then hangs after telling me the drive types (which are correct so it has
>looked at the drives through the controller). 

>I tried another machine - and the same thing happened -- no boot.

>I don't have the time to devote 100% to this project - so I don't want
>to start my 30 day free support from Intel at this time..

>Any ideas or pointers out there?

Hm - I had a similar - though not the same prob. Using Adaptec 1542A with single
SCSI drive (btw. "unrecognized drive type"), the system would boot, ask for
the second floppy (aha!) and then -- "die disgracefully". But it would
at least complain about "VTOC unsupported" "unable to write boot sector"
and so on.

Wiping the old (ISC 3.2) operating system from the disk (that is preformatting
the disk) helped. System now runs (fine ???), that is a (slow) 20MHz AT with
8 MB RAM, 1 SCSI drive.

(even C-news, nn and smail 3.1 are up again, which took me quite some time)

>which way to go?

good question. Just trying to figure it out myself ....



cheers

	Wiljo
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