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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5253 ; Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:00:25 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!glenc From: glenc@netcom.com (Glen Collins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386bsd] Install problem! HELP! Message-ID: <1992Dec19.213828.22125@netcom.com> Date: 19 Dec 92 21:38:28 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 168 Hello all again! Well I STILL have not been able to run 386bsd. So I have the info for someone that can help with my problem below! Besides bying another board/pc I would rather find the problem and get it fixed. I also want to know since bsd is still in the development stages ( which every unix is never going to be complete, always soemthing new a great comes along) I would like to know if there are some good debugging programs or even keys to press to give me vital stats on what's going on! Thanks in advance! -------------- BUG FINDER INFORMATION: NAME:Glen Collins EMAIL:root@genone.gentoo.com / glenc@netcom.com PC INFORMATION: 1. What is your PC system configuration? Please be specific, as success can vary with a difference in manufacture date or variation. 386/486/387: 80386 (Name: Hot 307 board) Advanced Micro Devices CPU DX/DXL 40 Megahertz Bios/Chipset AMI Bios (5/21/90)/ OPTI chipset ISA/EISA/SCSI: ISA RAM size: 4 Megs drive(s) type and size: Floppy 1: 1.2M Floppy 2: 1.44M Miniscribe 68M/ Rll'ed to 104M tape(s) type and size: Colorado 250M ethernet type: NONE graphics type: Trident SVGA (1 meg onboard) serial type: com1/com2 standard parallel type: lpt1 standard other: proaudio spectrum 16(for dos scsi drive Microsoft mouse Bugs: 1. What bugs have you found in this system? Please attach any pertinent printouts and system messages. Please also attach any bug fixes for others to use. The following is what happens to my system with I try to install 386BSD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 64 KB CACHE MEMORY 386BSD Release 0.1 by William and Lynne Jolitz. [0.1.24 07/14/92 19:07] Copyright (c) 1989.1990,1991,1992 William F. Jolitz. All rights reserved. Based in part on work by the 386BSD User Community and the BSD Networking Software, Release 2 by UCB EECS Department. pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa com1 at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa com1 at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa wd0 at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa fd0 drives 0: 1.2M, 1: 1.44M at 0x3f0 irq6 drg 2 on isa changing root device to fd0a warning: no swap space present (yet) 386BSD Distribution Installation Floppy (Tiny 386BSD) Release 0.1 Please read the installation notes (type 'zmore INSTALL.NOTES') and registration information (type 'more REGISTRATION') before use. To install on hard disk drive, type 'install'. erase ^?, werase ^H, kill ^U, intr ^C # install -debug bios finds: cyl 1024 heads 8 sectors 26 Partitions: offset size type flag 26 20566 1 80 20592 61568 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 63 MB free. How many megabytes would you like for 386BSD? 63 386BSD partition: start 82160 size 129168 ssect 41 scyl 8b esect da ecyl f7 typ a5 Should your 63 MB 386BSD partition be created on the disk drive? (y/n) y Do you want to install 386BSD in the disk drive's 386BSD partition? (y/n) y making root size 118560 offset 82160 making swap size 10000 offset 200828 label written at sector 82160 High level formatting of 386BSD disk storage: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is where is system hangs. I cannot do a warm reboot, I either must press the reset button or turn the machine off. What I have done: Taken out all but the video card. Even used a mono card in place of the svga card. Reformatted the hard drive to 68 megs (mfm). Increased memory from 4 to 6 megs. Changed various bios/chipset settings. Cache/ no cache AT wait state Changed Bus speed from 8 Megahertz to 6 Megahertz Memory reads/write wait states Only the 1.2m floppy Only the 1.44M floppy Disablled the harddrive onboard bios, let the AMI bios tell BSD how many heads, cyl's and the such. FTP'd the fixed dist.fs from berkeley for the WD and even the ethernet controller fix just in case there was some kind of problem with compatibuility. Even tried to install from the fixit floppy, but the system seems to hang when I try to disklabel the drive.(With the wd fix from agate) And still the system hangs. I even purchased a new controller (mfm) and cables to see if there was a problem with the rll controller I was using. Still the same problem! --------------------------------------------------- The flollowing is the disklabel after the install program does it's thing and hangs! # disklabel -r wd0a /dev/rwd0a: type: st506 disk: label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 26 track/cylinder: 8 cylinders: 1024 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # miliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # miliseconds drivedata: 0 3 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 118560 82160 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 395 - 964) b: 10000 200828 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 965*- 1013*) c: 129168 82160 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 395 - 1015) ---------- end ------------- The disk I have is a Micropolis 6085 68 Megs formatted. I have it rll'ed to 104 with a 10meg dos boot annd 30 meg D drive. The rest is avaliable for 386bsd (63megs I think) Any Ideas???? Help!!!!! Glen Collins glenc@netcom.com root@genone.gentoo.com fred@seer.gentoo.com