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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Subject: Re: help wanted with disappearing disklabel
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.034900.25553@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- References: <1992Aug01.172005.399@bigcomm.gun.de>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:49:00 GMT
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- ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) writes:
- : Hi freaks,
- :
- : from what I see on the 2 floppys I like 386bsd 0.1 very much.
- : I can install it on disk (together with MSDOS), means the install
- : program runs fine.
- : Afterwards I can't boot from the hd. (IDE ST1239)
- : It boots, detects all the hardware and then reboots over and over
- : with an error I cant read.
- : I already tried the new bootwd posted here, and also made sure that
- : partitions do start at cylinder boundaries.(No star using "disklabel").
- : Booting up the fixit-floppy shows that the "disklabel" is completely
- : mad. The number of cylinders is more than 1200 instead of 769,
- : the rpm and interleave are 0. I can reedit the disklabel and
- : correct it, but after the next boot it's the same problem.
- :
- : When I remove my DOS-Partition and install on the entire drive, It
- : works perfectly !!!
-
- I had the same problems. My attempts at manual installation and trying to
- install DOS partitions failed because I cannot install DOS at the first
- partition.
- 386bsd tries to use the first partition as the root device even when
- it is labelled as wd0c .
- I do not know how the root device is chosen.
-
- My solution is just to install 386bsd for the whole drive.
-
- Another option which I may explore is to try install DOS at other partitions
- other than the first cyclinders.
-
-
- --
- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
- Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
- Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet
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