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From: jhenshaw@microsoft.com (Jeff Henshaw)
Subject: Jim Blade's question on IDE drives' installation
Message-ID: <1992Aug19.040750.442@microsoft.com>
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:07:50 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
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In article 3773 in comp.unix.bsd, jim@blade (Jim Rump)
writes...
| A week later I bought an other IDE (SEAGATE).
| Of course I tried to run the install script.
| The result: BSD did work with DOS on the same HD.
| My question is: Why do two IDE's differ in the way
| discribed above?
Please forgive me if this type of issue has been
re-hashed before, but I didn't see a response off hand.
Machine: WYSE 386/16 4 Mb. RAM
80 Mb. Seagate IDE HD
3.5 & 5.25" floppies
Video7 VGA
I tried installing 386BSD (0.1) from the "Tiny BSD" install
diskette using the install script. I'm installing
from the 3-1/2" 1.44Mb drive, onto the 80Mb Seagate IDE
drive [which is the only HD in the machine].
The TinyBSD floppy boots perfectly, although is doesn't
list the name of my HD, as the install notes suggest it
should (the install notes suggest checking the cabling, but
everything else recognizes the drive). Anyway, I proceed
to install, and everything is apparently copied properly
(I can hear the HD writing as the install script reports
its actions). However, upon getting the
prompt "Press enter to boot from the HD," I hit enter,
and after the floppy drives are checked, I'm left with
a frozen machine with the A: (3.5") drive light on, even
though the drive is empty.
I've tried using FDISK to have a DOS and BSD partition,
as well as letting the install script overwrite the whole
drive. I noticed that after booting the TinyBSD floppy,
one can use the command "shutdown -todos" to restart and
boot from a DOS partition. Upon doing this [attempts to
troubleshoot], the hard disk continually tries to initialize
itself, and gets caught in a nasty, violent thrashing loop.
Does anyone have any advice for me? I'd really like to get
this installed, and the WYSE/Seagate machine is the only
386 that I have at home :-(
Thanks in advance for posts or mail,
-Jeff
jhenshaw@microsoft.com
PS - I'd like to offer my thanks to all of the folks
on the contribution list of this project. Even
though I'm having troubles on my machine, it appears
to be a great system; very complete and well thought-
out. Congratulations on a job well done. [so far :-]