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From: ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: help wanted with disappearing disklabel
Message-ID: <1992Aug01.172005.399@bigcomm.gun.de>
Date: 1 Aug 92 17:20:05 GMT
Organization: adosoft
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Hi freaks,

from what I see on the 2 floppys I like 386bsd 0.1 very much.
I can install it on disk (together with MSDOS), means the install
program runs fine.
Afterwards I can't boot from the hd. (IDE ST1239)
It boots, detects all the hardware and then reboots over and over
with an error I cant read.
I already tried the new bootwd posted here, and also made sure that
partitions do start at cylinder boundaries.(No star using "disklabel").
Booting up the fixit-floppy shows that the "disklabel" is completely
mad. The number of cylinders is more than 1200 instead of 769,
the rpm and interleave are 0. I can reedit the disklabel and
correct it, but after the next boot it's the same problem.

When I remove my DOS-Partition and install on the entire drive, It
works perfectly !!!

However, if it wouldn't work. Has anyone any idea, how I could boot
from floppy and mount the harddisk (wd0) as ROOT filesystem.