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- From: corcoran@valhalla.cs.wright.edu (Michael P. Corcoran)
- Subject: 386BSD install problem -- can't mount /
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.022758.10164@cs.wright.edu>
- Sender: corcoran@cs.wright.edu (Michael P. Corcoran)
- Organization: Wright State University
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:27:58 GMT
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- Help! I'm having problems with the installation of 386bsd.
- I've noticed at least 3 other postings in this group with
- the same problem but no solutions. Here's a little more info:
-
- Both the dist.fs and fixit.fs boot disks boot fine. I then run
- install which also runs without complaints; but, when I try to
- reboot after it installs files on the hard disk, the system goes
- into an infinite reboot with a panic:"can't mount root."
-
- After investigating with disklabel on the fixit.fs disk, I found
- that the hard disk label was corrupted. ok, so I ran disklabel -e wd0
- and corrected it. I then read it back with disklabel -r and all
- was fine, further I was able to mount /dev/wd0a on /mnt and the
- filesystem was in good shape. fsck also passed on it without errors.
-
- Now the weird part. When I reboot, the disk label gets corrupted
- again. Even if I reboot on the fixit.fs disk, the hard disk label
- is restored to some default incorrect values, wrong #cylinders, sectors,
- etc. When this happens, I am unable to mount /dev/wd0a /mnt so it's
- not surprising that the system can't.
-
- I went so far as to create a new /etc/disktab entry in case that
- was involved somehow -- No luck.
-
- Now an even more weird part. If I tell the install program to
- use the entire disk (after deleting all partitions on the disk)
- everything works great and the system boots off the hard disk.
- I don't really want to do this as I still need to boot dos for
- some programs and would like to keep it in a separate partition.
-
- The steps I've taken:
- -- delete all hd partitions
- -- boot dos 5.0 off floppy
- -- create 80MB primary dos parition, format c:, install dos 5.0
- -- boot tinybsd, install
- -- create 263MB 386bsd partition, allow installation to proceed.
- -- try to reboot off hd, fail.
-
- Another attempt:
- -- delete all hd partitions
- -- boot tinybsd, install
- -- bug? The system only gives me the choice of installing
- on the entire disk (which works) but does not allow me
- to create a 386bsd partition of the size of my choice.
- Only if a dos parition exists does it ask me what size
- bsd partition I want.
-
- Help! Help!
-
- Configuration:
- Maxtor 8380E 360MB ESDI disk with 512 byte sectors.
- Data Technology DTC6282-24 ESDI controller set for 63 sector
- per track mapping mode which is recommended for Novell,
- OS/2 and UNIX.
-
- Please email replies to corcoran@valhalla.cs.wright.edu.
-
- Any ideas will be appreciated; thanks in advance.:
-
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