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From: "Alan E. Ross" <aross@convex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Still cannot get BSD to boot
Date: 12 Aug 1995 02:39:20 GMT
Organization: Convex Computer Corp.
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aisaka@vsl.co.jp (Satoshi Aisaka) wrote:
>Hi.
>
>In article <3vmolq$pnd@sphinx.Gsu.EDU> matess@ubu.cs.gsu.edu (Elizabeth Strickler) writes:
>
> |My questions are - which sectors/track should I use?
> |Do I have to have all of my SCSI card settings correct when I do the
> |install or can I mess with them after the install?
> |Any more suggestions?
>
>Cyls: 2112
>Heads: 16
>Sec/Trk: 63
>
>This works very well!
>
>--
>AISAKA, Satoshi
>R & D, Visual Science Laboratory, Inc.
>Awajicho MH bldg. 2-21 Kanda Awajicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101 Japan
>Phone 81-3-5256-7662 fax 81-3-5256-1070
I may be a little late here as I just now pulled up this
newsgroup.
I just purchased BSDI 2.0 and tried to install it on a Pentium/100
with 2 IDE/1.2Gb disks installed and 32Mb memory. Had a pain with
the BSD not thinking the disks were what the CMOS had. Called BSDI
up and got an "undocumented" ( at least from what I could find )
feature to disksetup:
At the first place where you can shell out for a custom install,
do so ( this should be right after you tell it you are loading
from cdrom and it's local, blah blah blah < assuming you are >).
Then at the "#" prompt type in:
disksetup -I -I -i
Then take all the defaults ( use the bios option for boot
blocks ).
When disksetup returns, type in "setup" at the "#" prompt.
Cool. So this got me past the disk problem. So I started
installing the product, and wham! I take a VM crash. Called
BSDI back and they suggesting removing half the memory and trying
it again. This could not be because I have 2 16Mb SIMMs. Anyhow,
I decided to swap my SIMMs, and move them from the two slots they
were in, to the other two slots.
Well, everything then installed ( after going through the disksetup
foo again ), and the system has been rock solid since.
Can't explain the memory problem, perhaps something to do with VM
addressing?
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Alan Ross