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- From: andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Andrew Low)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: Tiny 386BSD boot problem w/IDE and Adaptec SCSI
- References: <1992Aug14.050157.10658@i88.isc.com>
- Message-ID: <9208141672@zone4.ocunix.on.ca>
- Organization: Zone4
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 00:55:20 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Aug14.050157.10658@i88.isc.com>
- mikebo@i88.isc.com (Michael Borowiec) writes:
- >Sorry if this is a FAQ. Is there a problem with booting Tiny 386BSD
- >on a machine with IDE primary and Adaptec SCSI secondary disk controllers?
-
- I had a similar problem. My machine has IDE drives only, and on 0.0
- it booted ok (the HD's complained a lot, somethine was wrong). Version 0.1
- did the same hang after indicating that it was changing the root to floppy.
-
- How I fixed it - I dug up the native geometry of my IDE drive (this took
- a call to someone who had the technical specs for the drive). It turns
- out that the drive LIES to the bios about its geometry, this was some how
- confusing bsd. Since I could not boot 0.1, I disklabeled with 0.0 and now
- 0.1 will boot. I have yet to install 0.1, but don't anticipate a problem
- now that the drives are quiet and happy (lots of screaming under 0.0
- originally due to incorrect drive geometry).
-
- All: I'm still confused about the bad sector allocation - can a mini
- tutorial for "designing a disktab entry" be placed in the faq? That
- and how this relates to Bad144..
- +/+\+/+\+/+chew carefully/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+
- Roo [andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca] m a c h i n e l o v e h a t e f e a r v o i d .
- "dreams are all that separate us from the machines"
-