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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!matth From: matth@hera.bf.rmit.edu.au (Matthew Hogan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NetBSD 1.0 - problems installing...BIG ones! Date: 29 Oct 1994 08:10:47 GMT Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Lines: 75 Message-ID: <38t027$k75@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: hera.bf.rmit.edu.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) I hope some-one out there can help me. I'm trying to install NetBSD v1.0 (from ftp.iastate.edu) onto my 486/DX2-66 machine. I get through most of the configuration / setup part without any problems, but when it comes to copy the floppies over I continually get an error message : wd0: wdcstart: timeout waiting for drq: status 0 error 0 or I get wdc0: lost interrupt: status 50 <rdy, seek done > error 0 wdc0: lost interrupt: status 58 <rdy, seek done > error 0 Does any one know what's going on? The machine boots NetBSD fine, and the instillain seems to go ok, but not a lot happens after that, except that the kernel says that it's giving up, syncs the drives and reboots for me. The current configuration that I'm running is: Intel 468DX2-66 EISA Mother Board (SIS chipset) 16 Mb RAM Diamond Stealth Pro (2Mb) UltraStor 14F (sitting at address $310 : I know that the packaged kernel will only recognise it at $330) (dma 7/irq 15) Multi I/O Enhanced IDE VL Bus controller ( Jumperless) 1.44Mb (drive A:) and 1.2Mb (drive B:) 180Mb Fujitsu SCSI HD ( don't want to talk to it under NetBSD just yet) 40Mb Miniscribe IDE ( drive 1, used for junk and swap files) 540Mb West. Dig. IDE drive 0 ( 1048 cly. 16 heads, 63 sect) This is the drive that I'm trying to install NetBSD to! -: these are the settings both for the drive and in the BIOS, I've been told that NetBSD doesn't have the same restrictions on the 1024 cyl, problem that DOS has, so the NetBSD partition is sitting on the end of the drive I also have a Pro Audio Studio sound card (sitting at $388) and a Gravis Ultra Sound ( $240) and a SCSI CD-ROM drive. The system is currently running ms-dos 6.2 and os/2 v2.99beta, these are switched by BootManager, a utility that comes with OS/2. The drive (540Mb IDE) was origionally partitioned with NetBSD in mind about 6 months ago with pfdisk. The NetBSD partition is hanging at the end of the disk (over the 1024th clyinder that DOS refuses to know about). I have included a menu item for NetBSD on the system as well, for when I can get it up and running. Every time that I've tried to install NetBSD (about 5 times now) it Trashes my IDE drive, when I boot up from a floppy after NetBSD complains about the timeout error (above), pfdisk tells me that there are illegel magic numberss in the drive's partition table, and the values it comes back with are horrid (really long - 10 digit negative numbers) I'm not sure what's going on with my hardware, I've tried to install NetBSD on the IDE drive from cyls. 559 - 1047 and from 559 -1023, with and without my controller's "enable >528mb" option. there are also options for the floppy drive modeto be in "normal" and os/2 mode. I've got no Idea what the difference is, but I've tried both :( I've also tried installing with Mode 3 block mode /Normal transfer rates . There are options for non-block transfer modes, I haven't tried this as I'm not sure what difference it would make. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I've waited for NetBSD 1.0 for a long time, and I really want to be running it. The thing that disturbes me the most is that the 540Mb IDE drive was completely trashed (no valid partition information on it) Any explination of what's going on would save a lot of headaches!! Thanks. Matt. matth@hera.bf.rmit.edu.au s892983@minyos.xx.rmit.edu.au