Comments on: Mach386: MACH and BERKELEY UNIX for i386 https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/07/02/mach386-mach-and-berkeley-unix-for-i386/ Fun with Virtualization Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:39:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/07/02/mach386-mach-and-berkeley-unix-for-i386/comment-page-1/#comment-382134 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:39:14 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9583#comment-382134 In reply to gepoolejr@gmail.com.

That doesn’t sound good?!

Does it detect the drive?

I usually have to hold my phone and take a video of the boot so I can capture what’s going on, as pause etc is the only way lol

]]> By: gepoolejr@gmail.com https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/07/02/mach386-mach-and-berkeley-unix-for-i386/comment-page-1/#comment-382133 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:01:47 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9583#comment-382133 Hey there….I’m in the middle of installing Mt Xinu on a real box with 500 meg drive. I have not gotten as far as the Boot Disk loading my putting in /mach -a then inserting the file disk. It asks for the Root Partition, but rejects anything I put in. Do you know how to move this along so that it starts asking for the actual disks to be loaded? Thanks for your help!

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/07/02/mach386-mach-and-berkeley-unix-for-i386/comment-page-1/#comment-215612 Wed, 03 Jul 2019 04:50:24 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9583#comment-215612 In reply to Ian Dunbar.

I tried the latest build, and it ‘sort of works’. It’ll lock up on reboots when trying to load the kernel. I had to kill 86box and re-launch to get past certain booting stages.

I used the following:

AMI i386DX/33 with 80387 & 12MB of RAM
3.5″ 1.44 300/360 RPM
IDE disk with 1015c 16h 63s

**EDIT
I should add that after the fact it doesn’t install properly. Files went missing during the install, although the installer didn’t complain. So 86box current build just doesn’t work well enough.

]]> By: Ian Dunbar https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/07/02/mach386-mach-and-berkeley-unix-for-i386/comment-page-1/#comment-215584 Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:18:00 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9583#comment-215584 “The floppy controller is programmed in a weird way that the only thing I could get it working with was VMWare.”

Did you try it in 86Box/PCem? I curious if it would work there. Particularly since it emulates far more old hardware (NE1000/EtherLink II/ISA SCSI cards/etc.).

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