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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!ub!newserve!rebecca!CNSVAX.ALBANY.EDU!JK7023 From: jk7023@CNSVAX.ALBANY.EDU (Jaime) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: problem with i386 port Date: 1 Jan 1996 01:20:24 GMT Organization: University of Albany, SUNY Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4c7cso$5bk@rebecca.albany.edu> References: <4c5cv6$j7i@rebecca.albany.edu> <4c64qh$rrl@atlas.fwi.uva.nl> Reply-To: jk7023@CNSVAX.ALBANY.EDU NNTP-Posting-Host: cnsvax.albany.edu In article <4c64qh$rrl@atlas.fwi.uva.nl>, frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linde n) writes: >At this point, you should 'copy_kernel' to get a kernel on your harddisk. >This will also do a filesystem check on the root partition on your hd. >Do you get to that point at all? You did get through the part where >the install program populates your root partition with binaries? I'd love to use copy_kernel. The problem is, it never seems to have that command installed. When I re-boot (after a halt command) it doesn't seem to realize that the harddrive has enough of BSD on it to use, but it does realize that it has enough there to ask for BSD floppies. I've manually mounted a kernal disk in the second drive. I try to cp the whole kern/, but it doesn't like the file "rootdev" very much. In fact, ls -asl doesn't even like it. What is this file supposed to be doing? Why doesn't a simple cp work? Where can I get copy_kernel from? To answer your questions, I do get to the # prompt just after it populates and bootstraps. I just can't "reboot", or "halt"/warm-boot, or even turn off and then on the computer. If I do, it won't use anything on the hard drive without a "mount -v /dev/rwd0a /mnt" command. :( Could it be my IDE controler? Thanks, Jaime