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- From: bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers)
- Subject: [386BSD] Still trying to install...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.075418.26319@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 07:54:18 GMT
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- Ok. I've used ide_conf to check settings, and they now agree (I low
- level formatted my drive back to the drive settings and updated my CMOS
- values appropriately).
-
- I tried re-installing 386bsd from the Tiny 386BSD disk, and, whether I
- used the entire drive, or only the 41 meg partition, I still cannot get
- *anything* other than a brief flash of the keyboard lights before the
- system seems to decide that it needs something from the floppy drive,
- and hangs itself (i.e. the drives stop making any noise, the warm-boot
- and BIOS-boot key sequences don't work, and the light over the A:
- drive is on steady, but no reaction if I insert a disk at any point).
- Full reset (i.e. big button -- glad this new machine has one) is
- required, with the TinyBSD disk inserted (or anything with an fdisk or
- something) so I can set my DOS partition active again.
-
- Booting from the floppy works fine for that basic level (20-30 secs
- until prompt), and shutdown -todos works fine, but warm boot from DOS
- (either after changing the active partition, or straight to a BSD
- floppy) hangs.
-
- Once again, I have a Tiny 386BSD disk (and fixit.fs) downloaded in
- November, v0.1 (7/92). My machine is:
- i486/40 ISA, 8MB RAM, 44.7 MB Seagate ST-157A IDE
- (translation is set to OFF in CMOS)
- Microid Research BIOS (MR BIOS)
- Running disklabel from the fixit.fs disk:
- #disklabel wd0
- # /dev/rwd0d
- type: ESDI <-- it's an IDE. Did install do this wrong?
- disk: ESDI/IDE
- label: T157A
- flags:
- bytes/sector: 512
- sectors/track: 26
- tracks/cylinder: 6
- sectors/cylinder: 156
- cylinders: 560
- rpm: 3600
- interleave: 1
- trackskew: 0
- cylinderskew: 0
- headswitch: 0 <-- should this have a non-zero value?
- track-to-track seek: 0 <-- should this have a non-zero value?
- drivedata: 0
-
- 3 partitions
- # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
- a: 73476 1872 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 12-482)
- b: 10000 75456 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 483*-547*)
- what do the *'s mean? -----^----^
- c: 84084 1872 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 12-550)
- #
-
- Any and all help will be appreciated! (I really want to get 386bsd running)
-
- -bkc
-
- --
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- bkc@{phoenix|cs}.Princeton.EDU caruthrs@thumper.Princeton.EDU
- Bruce Caruthers '93 Princeton University bkc@Sgi.COM
- "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear
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