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From: jmsimon@acsu.buffalo.edu (JMS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: TinyBoot/FixIt boot, hard drive won't (after install)
Summary: ASIP (Another Stupid Installation Problem)
Keywords: boot, 386BSD, Problems!
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Date: 14 Jan 93 15:33:46 GMT
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Let me start with system configuration: 486dx/33 isa, 16mb RAM, 212mb IDE
(conner 3204), wd8003e, 2serial/1parallel, et4000 svga card, TMC1670 SCSI
card (Future Domain), HP97544SF 316mb SCSI drive.
I was having problems with install (unable to write disklabel errors) so
played with the partitioning on my scsi drive, and moved by 10mb Linux
root file system onto the scsi; linux is now off my ide. I reformatted the
ide, reinstalled DOS, and left 140mb for BSD. Booted the TinyBoot disk and
ran install; it went through, said it was installing on the drive, etc.
<Remove disk and hit return to reboot from hard drive>
Ok. It starts to load up the kernel (gets to the npx0 at irq13 isa message)
and then a panic: trap; a quick message that ram is being stored to a file,
and bam, reboot.
I've tried to boot the TinyBoot or FixIt flopies at this point and mount
the hard drive, but when I 'ls -al /mnt' (after mounting it, of course :D )
it's empty. If I try to copy a file to that partition (ie: 'cp /386bsd
/mnt/386bsd') I get an I/O error.
---- Anyone know why? Do I need a patched kernel? I'm not intending to use
the scsi for bsd right now (eventually) but I don't want to pull it out,
either (right now, if Linux wasn't bootable from my scsi I'd not be sending
this news...)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to try out 386bsd, but it
just isn't cooperating with me.
JMS
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