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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!uunet!nih-csl!helix.nih.gov!crtb From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Subject: Re: TinyBSD panics during boot Message-ID: <1993May17.142202.7855@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda References: <1993May10.181903.1844@alw.nih.gov> <1ssjb6$4rh@genesis.MCS.COM> Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 14:22:02 GMT Lines: 46 In article <1ssjb6$4rh@genesis.MCS.COM> karl@genesis.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes: >In article <1993May10.181903.1844@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes: >>If I fiddle the cable on my PC so that the 5.25" floppy boots, I can >>boot TinyBSD. But if I reverse it so the 3.5" boots, TinyBSD panics >>just after trying to 'move root to <I forget>'. Any cure? I'd rather >>use the 3.5" as the A: drive, but now I'm forced to set up the 5.25" >>as the A:. Since I posted this, I learned the obvious (thanks to chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko)): After suffering with two 1.2MB 5.25" FDs (dist and fixit), and a million 3.5" FDs for everything else, I found out I could interchange A: and B:, but I had to tell the CMOS. >> Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov >>O civili, si ergo, fortibus es in ero. | ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY >>O novili, demis trux; indem arsem causen dux. >>-- >> Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ( alas, not my 3b1 )-: >> ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY > >You too! Heh, its not my machine! I'm impressed with that; I thought my >system was f*ed. Anyway, I need a fix for this too; I do not have a 1.2MB >disk drive on my system and want to boot and run from 1.44! Your situation is different, but I hope it goes back to telling the CMOS that you have the 3.5" only. Access should be during the boot process, or possibly by a piece of software. On mine, I hit DEL at a particular point just before it honks the two floppies. This puts me into a (ROM-based?) menu in which I can tell the CMOS all kinds of things. I guess TinyBSD looks in there to learn what kind of disk it was booted from. >I am attempting to boot NetBSD 0.8a and get a trap 18 immediately after >being prompted to switch disks. > >-- >Karl Denninger (karl@genesis.MCS.COM) | You can never please everyone except >Modem Access: [+1 312 248-0900] | by bankrupting yourself. >Voice & FAX: [+1 312 248-8649] | Internet in Chicago; a MCSNET first! Bon voyage! -- Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ( alas, not my 3b1 )-: ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY