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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: help wanted with disappearing disklabel Message-ID: <1992Aug26.034900.25553@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <1992Aug01.172005.399@bigcomm.gun.de> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:49:00 GMT Lines: 38 ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) writes: : Hi freaks, : : from what I see on the 2 floppys I like 386bsd 0.1 very much. : I can install it on disk (together with MSDOS), means the install : program runs fine. : Afterwards I can't boot from the hd. (IDE ST1239) : It boots, detects all the hardware and then reboots over and over : with an error I cant read. : I already tried the new bootwd posted here, and also made sure that : partitions do start at cylinder boundaries.(No star using "disklabel"). : Booting up the fixit-floppy shows that the "disklabel" is completely : mad. The number of cylinders is more than 1200 instead of 769, : the rpm and interleave are 0. I can reedit the disklabel and : correct it, but after the next boot it's the same problem. : : When I remove my DOS-Partition and install on the entire drive, It : works perfectly !!! I had the same problems. My attempts at manual installation and trying to install DOS partitions failed because I cannot install DOS at the first partition. 386bsd tries to use the first partition as the root device even when it is labelled as wd0c . I do not know how the root device is chosen. My solution is just to install 386bsd for the whole drive. Another option which I may explore is to try install DOS at other partitions other than the first cyclinders. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet