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From: morpheus@aksi.net (Jeremy Dobrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Problems with 110495-SNAP install(long)
Date: 14 Nov 1995 23:38:56 GMT
Organization: Acquired Knowledge Systems, Inc.
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Subject: 11/04/95 Snap install problems(long)
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Subject: 11/04/95 Snap install problems(long)
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Subject: 11/04/95 Snap install problems(long)
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Hello all.
After a succesful install of the 10-26 SNAP I decided to install the
11-04 SNAP to my new pentium machine and the boot floppy always hangs
right at the end when it should run sysinstall.
The system is a 100MHZ pentium with a 1.6 gig ide on controler 1 set as
master and a 545 ide on controler 1 set as slave. There is a quad speed
panasonic ide cd-rom on controler 2. I've tried using the atapi.flp and
boot.flp and the system hangs on with either disk.
The system seems to work o.k. until it probes for the disks. After a
while it finally detects them but then follows with a device wd3.
wd3 it says is a 4.095 gig drive with 4 billions some odd sectors. While I
might like such a drive none is present in the system. :-)
Here's what I've tried
1) boot kernel with -c option and disable the cd-rom driver. Same result
2) boot kernel with -c option and disable wc1. Sysinstall boots.
Partition maker has the 545,which is where I want freeBSD to be, as wc0
and the 1.6gig as wc1. Create FreeBSD partition on wc0 using the A option
and install boot manager. Go to label maker and now the 1.6gig is wc0 and
the 545MB is wc1 and I can't create partitions on the 545 since it is no
longer the master. Seems to me that the 1.6 drive which is my primary
drive should be drive 0 and the slave should be drive 1. In anycase I
can't create the partitions on the 545MB drive.
3) MSD reports IRQ 14 address ODC3:0117 Fixed disk
IRQ 15 address ODC3:012f reserved
Try booting kernel with -c and changing addresses to 0117 and 012f.
Sysinstall boots but no drives are detected.
I've tried disabling everything that's not on the systems with no better
results.(i.e. scsi devices, ethernet, etc.). The problem seems to be with
the detection of wd3 which is some goofey phantom drive. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Jeremy