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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.mathworks.com!yeshua.marcam.com!uunet!news.eden.com!news.eden.com!nobody From: al@news.eden.com (Al Evans) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NetBSD Install hangs Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions Date: 3 Nov 1994 10:14:32 -0600 Organization: PowerTools, Austin, TX Lines: 34 Message-ID: <39b298$a3t@matrix.eden.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: matrix.eden.com I am having NO luck installing NetBSD 1.0_BETA. The computer in question is a 486/66 with a BusLogic BT445-C SCSI controller and a DEC 535 meg drive. I am booting from the correct boot disk for the BusLogic SCSI adaptor (presumably -- but I obtain the same results using either boot disk). There are no interrupt conflicts, and I get the same results whether I set the SCSI adaptor to IRQ 11 or 12, with DMA emulation on (drq 5) or off. The boot proceeds correctly to the "Insert file system floppy" prompt. I follow the instruction, and everything seems to be detected correctly up through my EtherNet card (a 3Com 3C509). The disk geometry is reported as 3117 cylinders, 4 heads, 83 sectors. Then I get "ie0: unknown AT&T board type code 15" and the system hangs. (Since I've gotten this line on both the other systems I've tried, I don't think this is where the problem lies:-) According to these other results, the next line should be something like "npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff...". The fact that this line doesn't appear seems to indicate that it's hung trying to find the FPU -- but this makes no sense to me:-) I've tried about everything I can think of, down to checking all the jumpers on the motherboard, reformatting the drive, and all the dumb things you do when you run out of ideas. But none of them make any difference. So has anybody got a spare clue? --Al Evans--