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From: andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Andrew Low)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Tiny 386BSD boot problem w/IDE and Adaptec SCSI
References: <1992Aug14.050157.10658@i88.isc.com>
Message-ID: <9208141672@zone4.ocunix.on.ca>
Organization: Zone4
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 00:55:20 GMT
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In article <1992Aug14.050157.10658@i88.isc.com>
mikebo@i88.isc.com (Michael Borowiec) writes:
>Sorry if this is a FAQ. Is there a problem with booting Tiny 386BSD
>on a machine with IDE primary and Adaptec SCSI secondary disk controllers?
I had a similar problem. My machine has IDE drives only, and on 0.0
it booted ok (the HD's complained a lot, somethine was wrong). Version 0.1
did the same hang after indicating that it was changing the root to floppy.
How I fixed it - I dug up the native geometry of my IDE drive (this took
a call to someone who had the technical specs for the drive). It turns
out that the drive LIES to the bios about its geometry, this was some how
confusing bsd. Since I could not boot 0.1, I disklabeled with 0.0 and now
0.1 will boot. I have yet to install 0.1, but don't anticipate a problem
now that the drives are quiet and happy (lots of screaming under 0.0
originally due to incorrect drive geometry).
All: I'm still confused about the bad sector allocation - can a mini
tutorial for "designing a disktab entry" be placed in the faq? That
and how this relates to Bad144..
+/+\+/+\+/+chew carefully/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+
Roo [andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca] m a c h i n e l o v e h a t e f e a r v o i d .
"dreams are all that separate us from the machines"