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From: bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers)
Subject: Still can't get Tiny 386bsd to install and boot
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1993 09:04:56 GMT
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Well, I have now low-level formatted my hard drive to Seagate specs
(was type 42, is now type 47), and the disklabel _appears_ to be a
valid/useable one (as best I can tell -- my experience is with SGI
machines: Sys 5, w/BSD enhancements; at least for sys admin stuff).
So, I have my 41 meg BSD partition, and the Tiny 386bsd installs with
no complaints, and then I am prompted to remove the floppy and hit any
key to boot from the hard drive. I do so, and nothing happens (well,
now that I've redone my drive, it at least flashes the keyboard lights
before hanging. It never even got that far under the old format). I
waited ten minutes, but the light over the floppy drive never went out,
and even the BIOS keys (ctrl-Alt-ESC to get to the CMOS edit window)
don't respond; I have to hit Reset. Even then, after ten minutes, same
results.
I have also tried to access it from the fixit.fs disk. mounting gives
no errors, but nothing lists as having been mounted (either in / or
/mnt).
Any ideas or suggestions (or detailed, step-by-step directions, much as
I hate to have to resort to that for the first time in my life) would be
greatly appreciated.
My system:
i486sx/40
8 MB RAM
Seagate ST-157A IDE (type 47 = 44.7 MB)
part. 1: DOS (2%, 1MB)
part. "2": 386BSD (98%, 42 MB)
(386bsd claims it ends up as 37.6 MB after install
formats it)
Plus Hardcard IIXL 105 (DOS)
640x480 VGA 14"
9600/38400 modem (COM2)
Boot floppy is currently 1.44 MB 3.5" (B: 1.2 MB, 5.25")
Thanks in advance,
-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
never beginning to live." -- Marcus Aurelius