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From: pz@modtor.uucp (Peter Ziobrzynski)
Subject: Re: More *BSD installation grief.
Message-ID: <pz.749186750@modtor.emp.promis.com>
Organization: Modular
References: <280eic$eu4@acsc.com> <CE0LC6.AzI@wang.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 03:25:50 GMT
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lar3ry gensch <lar3ry@world.std.com> writes:

>fmayhar@acsc.com (Frank Mayhar) writes:

>>_This_ time, I can't even get as far as I did with NetBSD.  The kc floppy
>>boots and asks for the filesystem floppy, which I provide.  It then proceeds
>>to go through its startup sequence.  It finally prints a "ISA strayintr 7"
>>message, indicates that it's changing the root filesystem to fd0a, and then
>>hangs forever.

>I had a similar problem with NetBSD and FreeBSD.  I decided to
>disable my ESDI disk (pulled out the power connector), and put in an
>Adaptec SCSI adapter (1540A).  I formatted a brand new 330 Mb SCSI
>disk and started FreeBSD.  It got to the point you did and hung.

>On a hunch, I went back in and powered on the ESDI drive (although I
>told the BIOS it wasn't there) and at the same point where it tries to
>change the root filesystem to fd0a, I hear the ESDI drive seek a few
>times, and then it succeeded.  (Got a message that it couldn't read
>the label off "wd0")

>However, after spending A WEEK with various configurations of NetBSD
>0.9 and FreeBSD 1.0-GAMMA, I have not been able to successfully get
>the damn thing to install completely (I now get "sd0a" problems, and
>see the drive power down after a boot... ARRRRGGGGGHHH!!!).  My only
>fallback position it to try to install Linux (either that or MS-DOS,
>which is NOT an option).

I have seen this. Check your floppies. Similar hanging happened to me
when I had bad media or drive that I used to dd the floppy images.
I repeated the dd on a good Sun floppy drive and all went ok.

I successfully installed FreeBSD and NetBSD on ESDI WD1007 controller and
Micropolis-1558 drive.

Unfortunately both systems in their original kernels have SCSI disabled
and I had to convert my QIC tapes to floppies to complete installations.
This is going backwards from the 0.1 fixit floppies where all including
SCSI and Ethenet worked fine. I guess to many people pull this project
their own way these days.
-- 
Peter Ziobrzynski, pz@modtor.emp.promis.com, Toronto, Ont. Canada