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From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FBSD install 'hangs' my system
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 21:26:20 -0700
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J Wunsch wrote:
> Try booting with `-c' (directly at the ``Boot:'' prompt), type
> `visual' at the next prompt, and disable all the drivers where you
> don't have actual hardware for.
OK.
I tried that. I disabled everything I don't have. Same problem. When
the visual config came up I was greeted with this line:
Active Drivers 21 conflicts
> Does it respond to Alt-F2, and display some debug messages over there?
> Or, can you hit ScrLck, followed by PgUp, and browse back through the
> messages?
Alt-F2 does work. Here's what displays at the top left of the screen:
DEBUG: ioct(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success)
DEBUG: Found a device of type disk named: wd0
DEBUG: Found a DOS partition wd0s1 on drive wd0
DEBUG: Found a DOS partition wd0s2 on drive wd0
DEBUG: Try for cd0a returns errno 2
DEBUG: Try for mcd0a returns errno 2
DEBUG: Try for scd0a returns errno 2
DEBUG: Try for matcd0a returns errno 2
(then the cursur turns solid white under the last statement & the HDD
remains lit)
Scrlck works but I'm not sure about the PgUp. The last line printed
before failure is:
rootfs is 1200 Kbyte compiled in MFS
I was able to observe the following line while using the ScrLck:
wdc0: unit 1(atapi): <Dolphin 8001 IDE 2X CD-ROM 4-03-95/1.08B>,
removable
> > HD geometry: 3148 cylinders 16 heads 63 SPT
>
> Hmm. I'm no expert for IDE drives nor do i know the state of the art
> in FreeBSD's IDE support, but it's possible that FreeBSD won't be able
> to boot off this harddisk in this translation mode. Anyway, it should
> not hang either, it should even install (but refuse to boot off the
> harddisk later).
More info on my HD: (obtained from Linux FDISK (using option p) all the
crap about physical/logical stuff is typed exactly as displayed on
screen. At first, I thought sloppy-DOS was responsible, but now I'm not
so sure that is true.)
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks ID SYS
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 242 487840+ 6 DOS 16
bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 243 243 470 459648 5 extended
/dev/hda3 1024 471 479 16632 82 Linux
swap
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023,15,63) logical=(470,0,1)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023,15,63) logical=(478,15,63)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundry:
phys=(1023,15,63) should br (1023,63,63)
/dev/hda4 1024 479 787 622440 83 Linux
native
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(1023,15,63) logical=(478,16,1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023,15,63) logical=(786,63,63)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundry:
phys=(1023,15,63) should br (1023,63,63)
/dev/hda5 243 243 413 344704+ 6 DOS 16
bit >=32M
/dev/hda6 414 414 470 114880 6 DOS 16
bit >=32M
DOS FDISK says the following about the same drive:
Partition Mbytes File Sys
c: 1 PRI DOS 476 FAT16
2 EXT DOS 449 FAT16
3 NON-DOS 16
4 NON-DOS 608
> Does the Linux space follow the primary DOS partition directly (i.e.,
> does it start below 508 MB)? This would be best. Btw., you can
> collapse both Linux partitions into one, since FreeBSD can
> sub-partition its disk space. (We call the fdisk units `slices', just
> to distinguish them from the BSD `partitions'.)
-- see info above
What should I try next? When you asked about ScrLck and PgUp, what
should I be
looking for if I can get it to work?