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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!sgiblab!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!ymir.cs.umass.edu!gaia!doyle From: doyle@gaia (Jim Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [NetBSD] WD1003 RLL controller? Date: 13 Dec 1993 22:44:01 GMT Organization: CS Dept., Umass-Amherst Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2eir7hINN5j2@ymir.cs.umass.edu> Reply-To: doyle@cs.umass.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: gaia.cs.umass.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] This weekend I tried to install NetBSD 0.9 onto a small 386sx system that I will be using as a dedicated router (gateway). I setup my BIOS stuff, low-level formatted the drive and did the floppy installation without a hitch up until the point where you have a miniroot on the harddrive. The miniroot would not boot - the loader was reporting errors at high cylinder numbers. Interestingly, when I booted again from floppy - I fsck'ed the a partition on the hard-drive, mounted it, and all seemed to be there! Also of concern, when I boot from floppy I see a few of these messages: wdc0: Extra Interrupt. I thought this would be fairly trivial to setup.. Considering all of the hardware is fairly standard. Any advice? Or is it just that I need a different disk/controller combination?? I am using: 386sx40 AMIBIOS 1992 4MB RAM Ethernet: NE2000 Disk: Western Digital WD1003R controller + ST277 (62MB) 16550 + 16450 UART If anyone is working on a diskless boot PROM for an NE2000 that would be of interest to me as well. -- Jim Doyle (doyle@cs.umass.edu)