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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!sunic!sics.se!jonas From: jonas@sisu.se (Jonas Lagerblad) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386BSD] Problems with new boot code (HELP!) Summary: boot scsi PC-problems Message-ID: <1992Oct6.104110.714@sics.se> Date: 6 Oct 92 10:41:10 GMT Sender: news@sics.se Organization: Swedish Institute of Systems Development Lines: 54 Hello all happy 386-bsd users! I am a previously very content user of 386BSD, but since last night I can't boot my computer anymore (except from the fixit floppy). The scenario is like this: I have a 50Mhz 486DX Brand X (16Mb), an adaptec 1542B, A Seagate Wren7 (1.0Gb) on which I have been running 386BSD for the last month. The disk is partitioned with one 200Mb DOS5 partition and one 800Mb BSD partition, and I use the boot selection code posted quite recently by someone from Berlin (Thomas XXX). Most things have been working reasonably well, but yesterday I decided to test Julian Elischer's new scsi driver. I installed all patches needed in the kernel code, configured a new kernel with sd0 configured as boot and swap device, everything was fine until I tried to boot the new kernel and got an error message from the boot code that the kernel was to big, using 386bsd.alt. At this point I decided to install the new boot code. I compiled it without any problems, installed it with: disklabel -r -w sd0 wren7 scsitst /usr/mdec/sdboot /usr/mdec/bootsd and after copying my /etc/disktab to the FIXIT floppy I rebooted, and got no response at all from the new boot code. The boot selection still works and I can boot DOS (but who wants to run DOS?), but when selecting Unix nothing happens, and I have to do a reset of the computer (Ctrl_Alt_Del doesn't work). At this point I thought OK, there is some bug in the new boot code, lets reinstall the old code, I booted the fixit floppy, checked my file systems and reinstalled asboot and bootas with the same command as above (s/sd/as). Tried to reboot, but still no response from any unix boot code.. My disk layout is (approximately) like this: offset size(kb) Usage 0 200000 DOS5 partition (with boot select code) 200000 700000 /dev/sd0a 900000 100000 swap (/dev/sd0b) 200000 800000 /dev/sd0c 0 1000000 /dev/sd0d Does anyone have any idea of what to do to get my disk bootable again, I have considered removing the DOS partition and installing Unix on that partition too, to avoid the problems with bootselect (can that be the cause of this?), but there ought to be some simpler method. Regards Jonas Lagerblad -- Jonas Lagerblad Phone Office: +46-31-830250 Home: +46-31-205955 Car: +46-10-2846031 FAX: +46-31-831047 email: jonas@sisu.se