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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.154.70.8!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news-hk.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!ruby.hknet.com!news.resolink.com!adenine.netfront.net!news1.hk.linkage.net!hk.linkage.net!usenet From: Eno Tsin <eno@skytel.com.hk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Infinite Reboot Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 14:55:53 +0800 Organization: LinkAGE Online Ltd. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <33A391F8.2161040B@skytel.com.hk> NNTP-Posting-Host: boobee.skytel.com.hk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b4 [en] (Win95; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6120 Hi, I tried to install NetBSD 1.2 on my 486DX PC with 32M ram and a Quantum fireball SCSI (geometry reports by NetBSD is 3658cyl 4 heads 97sec) on sd1 (sd0 is a segate U SCSI disk with Win95 on it). I use an adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI controller. When I use pfdisk in window, it reports a geometry of 698 64 32 (which I don't think is right anyway since I don't think my disk has 64 heads per cycl) Anyway after I copy the kernel and reboot, it went into an infinite reboot sequence. I could find a solution in the faq. Any advice? Thanks.