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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD-0.1 Install problem: can't relabel disk, etc...
- References: <1992Jul28.200625.11771@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 08:31:12 GMT
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Keywords: 386bsd
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- Message-ID: <veit.712398672@du9ds3>
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- In <1992Jul28.200625.11771@donau.et.tudelft.nl> franky@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Frank W. ten Wolde) writes:
-
- >I'm having trouble installing 386BSD-0.1 to my system.
-
- [...]
-
- >When I prepare a partition of type A5 on my disk and try to install again
- >(install -debug) I get:
-
- > bios finds: cyl 1001 heads 15 sectors 17
- > Partitions:
- > offset size type flag
- > 17 153748 a5 0
- > 153765 101235 81 0
- > 0 0 0 0
- > 0 0 0 0
- > Do you want to install <...> disk drive's 386BSD partition? (y/n) y
- > making root size 143055 offset 17
- > making swap size 10000 offset 143265
- > label written at sector 17
- > High level formatting of 386 BSD disk storage:
- > ...
- > ...
- > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
- > 32, ...
- > ...
- > ...
- > ... , 134704, 138816
- > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): No such process
- > newfs: /dev/rwd0a: can't rewrite disk label
-
- >and the installation fails again.
- >Can someone please explain? I also tries the fixit.fs boot floppy and
- >used disklabel. Then I get errors about not being able to find/write the
- >disk label and I get '/dev/rwd0a: invalid argument' errors.
-
- This should be in the FAQ (but is not yet :-(
- Your listing shows that you A5 partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
- It starts at head 1, cylinder 0, sector 1 according to your disk parameters.
- This happens as a "feature" when you prepare the partition by FDISK and
- change the ID to A5 then.
- NEWFS does not like to start at a non-cylinder boundary and does not find the
- location to store the disk label. I think this is not a bug, but a vital
- feature, so don't patch the newfs source to get the remaining 238 sectors
- (they won't save your life).
-
- Change the offset to 15*17 = 255 and adjust the size accordingly (subtract
- 255-17). Install should work then.
-
- >My system is: 386/33 (unknown chipset)
- > 4 Mb core
- > no NCP
- > ST1144AT (drive 1: 125Mb)
- > ST251AT (drive 2: 43Mb)
- > SC499 (tape controller)
-
- I am not sure about your tape controller, but the rest is not critical.
-
- >
- >Thanks!
-
- >-Frank ten Wolde
-
- >--
- >#############################################################################
- ># Frank W. ten Wolde (PA3FMT) | E-mail: franky@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
- ># Delft University of Technology |
- ># The Netherlands |
-
- Hope that helps
-
- Holger
-
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