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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!metro.atlanta.com!cpk-news-feed3.bbnplanet.com!ge-harris.com!babylon5.ccd.harris.com!not-for-email From: jrw@ccd.harris.com (Jay Wherley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: panic on 386 hd boot Date: 12 Mar 1997 13:34:57 -0500 Organization: Harris Controls Division Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5g6t0h$7ik1@rs2.ccd.harris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jrw@rs2.ccd.harris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5609 i can install to ide hard disk and boot from floppy. when i try and boot from harddisk, i get a panic in init right after it tries to make wd0a root. took out ethernet card and sound card in case of interrupt problem, no luck. tried generic ide controller card without any luck (instead of the dtc eisa controller). disk parameters in CMOS match those of disk (202 MB WD). disk has 2 partitions a root and a swap. linux was on the disk and booted. 486/100 eisa sytem. any ideas? -- watching: | Jay Wherley http://controls.ccd.harris.com/~jrw _high anxiety_ | email: jrw@ccd.harris.com Wherley@ix.netcom.com reading: +----------+ note: my opinions are not necessarily _dragonfly in amber_ d. gabaldon | indistinguishable from those of GE/Harris