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From: ats@lut.fi (Ari Suutari)
Subject: Need help with booting 386bsd from IDE fixed disk
Sender: news@lut.fi (Usenet News)
Message-ID: <1992Jun26.224121.22588@lut.fi>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 22:41:21 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Keywords: 386bsd boot ide
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	Hi !

	I am trying to install 386bsd on a 386sx with 100 Mb IDE fixed disk.
	I can succesfully boot from distribution floppy (after lowering
	cpu speed from 16 MHz to 8 MHz). I created /etc/disktab entry for 
	the fixed disk (type MK234FC, 765 tracks, 8 heads, 33 sect/track)
	and wrote BSD disklabel without any bigger problems. The system
	complained about invalid bad sector file, so I initialized it
	with "bad144 wd0 0" (I know there are no bad sectors in disk).
	I can create root and /usr -filesystems, mount them and copy stuff
	from floppy to root filesystem.

	Problems begin when I try to boot from fixed disk. The system
	issues a "wd0: hard read error on sector 201927 ....". This message
	is repeated 5 times. I think that the boot is trying to read the bad
	sector table, since there are 5 copies of it and the printed sector
	numbers match to those sectors.

	After this the boot says that "bsd386" was not found and it is trying
	to boot "bsd386.alt" which again is not found. And so on and on ...

	I have no patches installed to my bsd386 ( I think so ...).

	Does anybody out there know what to do to get system running ?
	Any help would be appreciated.


		Ari Suutari,	ari@hilti.lpr.carel.fi
		Lappeenranta
		FINLAND