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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2101 ; Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:11:44 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!cs442a03 From: cs442a03@cs.iastate.edu (cs442 class account) Subject: Re: trouble setting up 386bsd on 40meg ide Message-ID: <cs442a03.730574836@stimpy.cs.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <21915.9302231600@uk.ac.uel.sol1> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 17:27:16 GMT Lines: 31 james@sol1.east-london.ac.uk (James Andrews, User Support) writes: >We are trying to set up 386bsd on three Anhkter pc clones, 486dx-33 with >8mb of RAM and western digital ethernet cards. >Without the hard disks fitted they boot off the Tiny 386bsd boot floppy, >but with a hard disk in them they hang when the boot floppy gets to "changing >root device to fd0". This is with the CMOS disk number at 17 ( which is >correct, we phoned western digital ). Before it gets to this it generates >an error message when looking at the hard disk: >wd0:<DW9 0344A-(4 0BM) >1:<wdgetctlr failed, assuming OK> at 0x1f0 irq 14 on >isa. >The only way to make them boot with a disk in is to alter the CMOS ram settings >to make the system believe that there is no disk fitted. It then boots >normally and finds the wd0 device on irq 14- but install doesnt work as the >newfs fails in this case and it seems to imply that newfs has no idea how >big the disk is- the message is something like "cant seek to 21354625436" or >some similarly large number. [....] Hey! SOMEONE ELSE who has the problem that I did!! You will need to change your CMOS settings to a different number of heads, cyls, etc. Unfortunately, I don't have the settings with me right now, but I will followup later today with the proper settings (after I get back to my room). James -- James N. Potts | "To err is human. To get multiple UAE's requires jnpotts@iastate.edu | MS Windows!" tabp6@isuvax.iastate.edu| - me