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From: yossman@osiris.cs.uoguelph.ca (The YossMan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: IDE install problems (ARGH!)
Date: 13 Dec 1995 18:16:34 GMT
Organization: University of Guelph
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Thanks to all that answered my last post. Mounting the dos partitions on
/dos/c and /dos/d worked great!
Now i'm having a more serious problem. I'm installing 2.1.0 from scratch
onto my 810MB IDE. Whether I select LBA mode or normal mode in the BIOS,
the Label editor in the install is unable to initialize /... It says,
"WARNING! Unable to initialize /dev/rwd0a!" This is after I've
specified 32MB for /, 32MB swap, 30MB for /var and the rest /usr.
There is one small dos 50MB partition at the front of the drive, but this
hasn't adversely affected my installations before. This worked LAST WEEK
even so I have no idea what is going on now.
Debugging info on VTY2 says that rwd0 slice 'a' is unavailable. Whatever
the hell that means.
This worked before, and now it simply refuses to initialize anything. We
checked the BIOS drive statistics against the ones reported by the
controller at bootup, and they do match. The only thing I can think of
is that there is remaining crap on the drive maybe that is preventing
the initialize, but I have no idea of knowing really.
ideas anyone?
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