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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!csus.edu!csusac!cindy!satmech From: satmech@ecst.csuchico.edu (satmech) Subject: Re: 386bsd-0.1 and DOS co-existance Message-ID: <1992Aug12.204550.13597@ecst.csuchico.edu> Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (no news is good news) Nntp-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu Organization: California State University, Chico References: <1992Aug5.233307.9174@gumby.dsd.trw.com> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:45:50 GMT Lines: 34 In article <1992Aug5.233307.9174@gumby.dsd.trw.com> gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com () writes: >Has anyone successfully installed 386bsd-0.1 on a DOS system in which >the disk is an IDE drive using a translation geometry (i.e. not the >native number of cyls., etc.) in the BIOS? > >When I try it, the disk is correctly written along with the correct >geometry in the label. However, when I try to boot off the disk, >the kernel disk driver insists on fetching the disk geometry from >the disk (see wdgetctlr) rather than from the BIOS as the install >procedure does. Consequently, it can not find the label. > >Does anyone know why it is done this way? > >Thanks in advance, >Jeff >gottloeb@trwrb.dsd.trw.com > I seem to be having a similiar problem, 386bsd boots from the conner 3420 205 meg IDE drive fine when the whole 205 meg is used but when a small dos partition is used with 386bsd placed in the second partition, the system continuously reboots with a very quick message saying something about the disklabel. When I examined the disklabel with the fixit disk, it appeared obviously wrong, with rev rate of 0 when it should be 3600, interleave of 0 when it should be 1, etc.. tried editing it with disklabel -e wd0 after making some space but to no avail. I'd like to hear from people who have successfully installed it on an IDE drive w/msdos. Thanks. Steven Chandler satmech@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu