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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!flyer!easix!bigcomm!ado 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 Lines: 20 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.