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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: installing 386bsd on 2nd partition: how to? Message-ID: <wilko.731691643@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 9 Mar 93 15:40:43 GMT References: <495@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1nhtbuINN67s@life.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 30 mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >In article <495@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl >(Wilko Bulte) writes: >> >> The installation never complains, but booting from the harddisk is >> not possible: the whole systems freezes. >You didn't say *where* it freezes. Well, just after the BIOS texts from the Adaptec card. >I had a problem with the bootstrapper on my HP Vectra. My temporary >solution (since I really didn't feel like debugging it) was to make a >kernel with `root on wd0a', and without the code to automatically >change the root device, and just boot off floppy. Later on, I >installed Julian's boot blocks, and everything works fine. I just found a back-issue of a news message indicating to me that the patched bootflops on agate do contain support for 1542A cards, but that the bootblocks in mdec don't. They were not recompiled :-(. So, this evening I'm going to try if this makes any difference by using a hacked bootflop. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Enterprise voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands