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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!olivea!apple!apple!motcsd!xhost92.csd.mot.com!ajv From: ajv@xhost92.csd.mot.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Can't get 0.1 to boot from HD Message-ID: <6854@motcsd.csd.mot.com> Date: 19 Jul 92 23:49:38 GMT References: <1992Jul18.140749.22030@ulci20.unil.ch> Sender: usenet@motcsd.csd.mot.com Lines: 31 mike@ulinf0.unil.ch (Michael BLOCH) writes: >I've been desesperatly trying to get 386BSD 0.1 to boot from my hard drive >without any success. Ditto, but with a different twist. The floppy boots fine, the install runs to completion. I can even mount the partition, set my PATH to point down onto the hard disk, run commands, switch active partitions, the whole ball of wax. When I try to boot from hard disk, my system hangs solid. No messages. Is there some way to patch the /unix image on a standalone floppy so that it'll switch to a hard disk for the root filesystem? That way I could continue the install, even though the actual boot would come from floppy. Are there any techniques for gathering more information on what's happening? Configuration: Mandax 25 Mhz i386 4 Mb RAM 32K cache 100 Mb Toshiba MFM Combo floppy/hard/COM1/COM2/LPT1 controller Oak VGA By the way, it also correctly ID'ed my Micropolis on an Adaptec, but I pulled the card out to keep things simple during the install. Booting 0.1 from floppy and messing around on the floppy made me feel like I was hacking V7 again--what fun! Regards, Andy Valencia ajv@csd.mot.com