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From: aland@informix.com (alan denney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell v AT&T
Summary: check /etc/default: default.* as substitutes for boot
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.012018.29804@informix.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 01:20:18 GMT
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In article <104@tsypac1.UUCP> dbailey@tsypac1.UUCP (Derek Bailey) writes:
>Has anybody out there run AT&T 386 v2.2 on a Dell 325 box.
>
>Dell unix from Interactive runs no problem. However using AT&t the 
>machine tends to hang if a fully built kernel is implemented.
>After analysis errors point towards a memory addressing problem.
>
>Both AT&T and Dell have been much help since they support there own respective
                       ^^^   missing something here?
>configuarations. 

Perhaps the Dells have differing reserved memory areas.  Check
/etc/default/boot for the MEMRANGE parameter.  AT&T provides several
different configurations, named "default.at386", "default.compaq",
etc., each differing slightly in which addresses are verboten.
Try substituting the others for the boot file and see what happens.


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