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#! rnews 1588 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.starnet.net!wupost!news.inlink.com!vulcan.inlink.com!larkin From: larkin@vulcan.inlink.com (Brian D. Larkin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Boot blocks for a BT-956C Date: 18 Jul 1995 19:17:52 GMT Organization: inlink Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3uh1d0$8rq@news.inlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vulcan.inlink.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Iam trying to determine wich boot blocks to select in order to get the machine to boot off of the hard drive. Currently, I can only boot off of the floppy. I have a BT-956C (PCI Wide SCSI) connected to a Seagate 4.1G drive inside a P-100 with Award Modular BIOS version 4.50G. And BSD/2.0. (of course... :) The first time I tried to install the installation process did not recognize the drive at all. I then was able to configure the installation process to "see" the adaptor by typeing the following at the Boot: prompt. -dev bha0 port=0x134 After doing this the installation proceeded uninterrupted, up until the point where it wants to boot onto the hard drive. Then the machine locks up tight (after displaying the BIOS configurationg settings (Processor, floppy drives, etc.)) No /boot process or anything. The question is: What boot blocks do I need to install to get it to boot with the above port option? Or does the fact that I do not receive a /boot message mean that it isn't even getting that far? -- Brian Brian D. Larkin Publication Services, Inc.