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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!homer.alpha.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.rediris.es!ordago.uc3m.es!news From: jgb@ordago.uc3m.es (Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Install netBSD 1.0 help Date: 19 Sep 1995 10:31:35 GMT Organization: GSYC, Univ. Carlos III Madrid, Spain. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <JGB.95Sep19113135@hola.uc3m.es> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950911155643.18928A-100000@ritz.cec.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hola.uc3m.es In-reply-to: "Bill R. Fink"'s message of Mon, 11 Sep 1995 16:23:59 -0500 In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950911155643.18928A-100000@ritz.cec.wustl.edu> "Bill R. Fink" <wrf1@cec.wustl.edu> writes: > From: "Bill R. Fink" <wrf1@cec.wustl.edu> > I want to install netBSD 1.0 on my machine and have it reside on its > own 300MB partition, concurrent with 700MB DOS partition. > I've done something similar, but with a smaller DOS partition. > The cmos config is reporting different values than what pfdisk is > reporting. My Disk configuration is as follows: > > CMOS PFDISK > ------- ------- > Cylinders 2099 523 <<<<<<------- | | I think here is part of the problem. I'm not sure about the reason, but PFDISK behaves in a strange way when faced to >1024 cylinders disks. It has probably something to do with LBA addressing... I found when installing my computer that things were pretty straigthforward if I changed in the CMOS the number of cyls to 1024. Later on, *booting from a floppy*, used pfdisk for partitioning it as if it were only a 1024 cyl disk (with the heads and tracks CMOS reported). It's important that you boot from a floppy, because in the boot sector of the h.d. seems to be something that confuses PFDISK. You need that the root partition of NetBSD is in the first 1024 cyls. This wasn't a problem for me (I had only 300 MB for DOS), but could be for you. I have no idea about this working with DOS *after* NetBSD. I set NetBSD to be the last partition in the disk. Hope this helps, Jesus.