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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Latest snap won't boot!
To: steveg@wavefront.wti.com (Steve Galle)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 16:26:48 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <9504261028.ZM5522@walrus.wti.com> from "Steve Galle" at Apr 26, 95 10:28:51 am
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folks:

This is a good case for having a seperate kernel floppy that can hold
a GENERIC kernel WITH DDB... that way we could get a stack-trace.....

should such a kernel floppy be part of the distribution as well?

julian
> 
> Hello all. Sorry to post a question with almost no information, but the machine
> is crashing before it produces any helpful output. Here's what happens: I boot
> off of the boot floppy, (It crashes whether or not I disable probing of devices
> which are not installed...) and make it to the menu. If I choose to procede
> with the installation, the hard drive light comes on, and never goes back out.
> At this point, the machine will let me switch screens with alt-F1/2, but there
> is no information to be found on the F2 screen.
> The machine succesfully ran 2.0R, and ann SNAPs until the beginning of the
> year, when I stopped keeping it current.
> 
> The machine:
> 486DX4/100
> Adaptec SCSI chip on a SIDE (?) vesa local bus i/o card    <=(this beastie must
>  	Genoa Phantom64 local bus video card			      go one of
> these		ProAudioStudio/Spectrum16 audio card
> 		      days.)
> 2 quantum 540lps drives
> 1 seagate 20mb drive
> 1 Toshiba CDROM
> 1 Archive Viper150 (ick!) tape drive.
> 
> 
> Any info you can spare including maybe how I can provide you with more info if
> it would help would be fantastic. Thanks!
> 
> -Steve
>