Re: Problems with 386

[Ray Maharaj <r.maharaj@auckland.ac.nz>]

are you using a high speed UART on the com port? Some older machines come
with a com port card that does not support buffering.


Ray Maharaj                r.maharaj@auckland.ac.nz
Computer Services Manager
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
School of Mathematics & Information Sciences (SMIS)
University of Auckland
New Zealand

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:

>   Hi, all. I've been using a bootrom made with netboot 0.7.2 for a
> while now, and it works fine. Yesterday I put the card with bootrom
> into a 386 machine and part way through the tftp download, I start
> getting timeouts.
> The download stops at around block 3350 and I get the following
> message:
> TFTP: Timeout
> 
> I get this message a few times and then it gives up. Plugging the card
> into a 486 machine shows no problems. I've tried it on an AMD 386DX40
> and an Intel 386DX33 and in both cases it fails the same way.
> The boot image being downloaded is 1859584 bytes long.
> 
> 				Regards,
> 
> 					Richard....
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