On Jun 26,  1:12am, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> Subject: RE: Unable to boot 1.3.2
> On 25-Jun-98 Brad Colbert spoke unto us all:
> #
> #    I'm trying to updgrade my PC from 1.3 to 1.3.2(i386) but I'm unable to
get
> #    past the boot floppy.  It locks up when it reports...
> #
> #    biomask blah blah (can't remember the rest)  and just sits there.
>
> This is a guess, but I've seen machines lock up like this when the com ports
> are hosed in some way (netbsd detects them wrong, whatever) and ttyflags
hangs
> trying to set them.
>
> Try disabling everything you can possibly disable (com, lpt, etc) and see if
> you can get it to boot.
>

   Does this mean I will not be able to use my com ports, etc?

   Brad

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