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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!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.731751783@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 10 Mar 93 08:23:03 GMT References: <495@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1nhtbuINN67s@life.ai.mit.edu> <wilko.731691643@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 38 wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: >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. And yes! It now boots from the HD. Only it flatly refused to co-exist with MSDOS, install asked if it should use the whole HD and if N was answered it exited. I'll try to figure out what is wrong there. 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