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- From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] SCSI Bootstrap Method?
- References: <1992Nov16.060831.24807@nas.nasa.gov> <1c6BuB4w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
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- Organization: NAS Systems Division, NASA Ames
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 07:30:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.073025.20477@nas.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1c6BuB4w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) writes:
- >tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
- >
- >> I need to find out how to bootstrap 386bsd, given a machine which only
- >> has a SCSI hard disk. When Julian Elischer posted his SCSI driver
- >> code, I thought I had it made, but I haven't been able to get past the
- >> need for a SCSI capable bootable filesystem diskette. I've searched
- >> agate.berkeley.edu and ref.tfs.com, and haven't found a suitable *.fs
- >> file on either. I need help!
- >
- >
- >I have 386bsd running with no problems as far as booting is concerned.
- >
- >I am running an adaptec 1542 with a 1.2gig fujitsui scsi drive.
- >I set the cmos drive to 0 'no drives' and let the scsi board boot the
- >machine. All seems to be ok. I am running the stock kernel.
-
- OK. Clearly, more details are necessary. I've got an EISA machine
- with an Adaptec 1740 running in "Standard Mode." The host bus adapter
- is SCSI device 7, the Maxtor P0-12S SCSI drive is SCSI device 0. DOS
- thinks the disk geometry is 32 sectors per track, 64 tracks per
- cylinder and 975 cylinders. The first 150 "cylinders" are for a DOS
- partition; the rest is set up with an "A5" partition type (386BSD).
- The motherboard is a Micronics 486DX-33 board with 256K of cache and 32
- MB of main memory (I bartered some old equipment for SIMs before the
- price went up).
-
- When I boot the distribution diskette, I get the following (typed from
- notes):
-
- 386BSD Release 0.1 by William and Lynne Jolitz. [0.1.0 07/22/92 01:01]
- Copyright (c) 1989,1990,1991,1992 William F. Jolitz. All rights reserved.
- Based in part on work by the 386BSD User Community and the
- BSD Networking Software, Release 2 by UCB EECS Department
- pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa
- com1 fifo at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa
- com2 fifo at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa
- fd0 drives 0: 1.44M, 1: 1.2M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
- as0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 on isa
- npx0 at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa
- as0b: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
- scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- as0b: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
- scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
-
- warning: no swap space present (yet)
- 386BSD Distribution Installation Floppy (Tiny 386BSD) Release 0.1
- #
-
- When I ignore the SCSI errors and type "install" I get the following:
-
- #install
- as0d: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
- scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- as0d: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
- scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- No disk drive to install 386BSD on.
- Would you care to have it installed on your TV instead? (y/n)
-
- When I try to label the 386BSD partition, using a home made disktab
- entry reflecting the previously outlined geometry and the fixit.fs
- diskette, I get a similar series of SCSI complaints, followed by a
- disklabel error message. Results are identical with either the original
- bootable diskettes or the set which was made available immediately after
- the release of 0.1.
-
- My net conclusion is that I need a pair of bootable diskettes which use
- Julian Elischer's SCSI driver code. Can anybody help?
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