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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: Endless boot cycle- suggestions? (SOLUTION)
- References: <45240001@hpycla.kobe.hp.com> <Aug.18.17.41.42.1992.4915@action.rutgers.edu> <3l!nmtm.alm@netcom.com> <16tkqqINN3e6@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 15:13:37 GMT
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- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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- In <16tkqqINN3e6@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> dds@doc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis) writes:
-
- >Many people have reported endless boot cycles after installing 386BSD
- >on a hard disk. I had the same problem, and solved it using the
- >following procedure. The problems seems to be wrong disklabels on
- >the disk created by install. This is can fixed, by doing it manualy.
- >You milleage may vary.
-
- [...]
-
- >(4) Create a new disk entry. The manual pages for disktab 5 should guide
- > you. You need to know the characteristics of your hard disk.
- > Look at the disks in the file, and add one for your own disk.
- > cd /etc
- > vi disktab
-
- You are aware that this is a catch-22, if you have no space to unpack the
- bindist files on another UNIX system, aren't you? The man page is in bindist,
- but you have only readable man pages when you succeeded in installing them
- on the disk. Just to mention...
- There should be some "hacker's guide" at least on the fixit disk,
- for all those who haven't started with 386bsd-0.0. (or aren't real *NIX wizards,
- but it is worth a discussion whether 386bsd is for the occasional computer
- user at all for the moment).
-
- [...]
-
- >Good luck,
-
- >Diomidis
- >--
- >Diomidis Spinellis Internet: <dds@doc.ic.ac.uk> UUCP: ...!uknet!icdoc!dds
- >Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 #include "/dev/tty"
-
-
- Note: *NIX is NOT a trademark of AT&T.
-
- Holger
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