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- From: kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett)
- Subject: 386BSD - Seems to stop my disks from booting...
- Organization: RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, CITRI, Melbourne
- Date: 12 Sep 92 08:32:50 GMT
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- I am trying to install 386 BSD on my system. I have a 486/33 system with
- 8M ram, and two 120M Western Digitial 2120 hard disks (WDC AC2120M).
- Currently I have OS/2 2.0 install on my system, and was hoping to get
- them working side by side (using the boot manager).
-
- Originally I was going to have OS/2 2.0 on one disk, and 386 BSD on the
- other, changing disks simply by flicking a switch which changes the
- master slave relationship between the two drives (IDE drives). This worked
- fine when I tested it for MSDOS 5.0, but after I installed 386 BSD on
- the entire disk, it simply would not boot (machine hung and the A: drive
- sat a whirred - even Ctrl-Alt-Del did not work). I could still boot from
- the first drive as per normal.
-
- Then I removed everything BUT the drive that I was installing 386 BSD on,
- and tried again but to no avail (running the OS/2 2.0 Fdisk showed the
- disk as being free, but Tiny386BSD could still recognise and even
- mount the drive properly).
-
- Now for the strange part. After deciding something was wrong :-), I
- installed MSDOS 5.0 onto the disk (thinking that the HPFS format could
- be confusing 386BSD), but now MSDOS wont boot either! ARRRGHH! I low
- level re-formatted the drive (from the BIOS setup - don't know if this
- actually does anything for IDE drives), but it still does not boot.
-
- Finally I decided that maybe something was wrong with my second drive, so
- I reformatted it as an OS/2 2.0 installable file system and transferred
- all of my OS/2 stuff over to it (OS/2 unlike others can boot from the
- second drive!), so I would then have a 1 Mb boot manage partition, 4Mb
- MSDOS partition and a 114Mb 386BSD partition. I installed 386BSD on
- the disk, rebooted and guess what - the stupid machine did excatly the
- same thing - it wouldn't boot. By now I was real worried about not
- having a single hard disk that would boot, so I booted up OS/2 2.0
- from floppies, and ran fdisk. Fdisk now found a partition marked as
- A5, so I added it to the boot manage menu. Rebooting and up came boot
- manage - selected 386BSD and boom - machine did a hardware reset!
-
- Damn. I also worked out that if I do a shutdown -to386bsd, it puts the
- system back into the non-bootable state, and a shutdown -todos makes
- MSDOS startable again, but I have to load OS/2 2.0 from floppies to get
- boot manage to work again (using fdisk).
-
- My system has an AMI BIOS (latest 7/7/91 release) with an ETEQ chipset.
- I also have a MegaEVA/2 ET4000 based video card with HiColor RamDac
- installed.
-
- Any clues pppplllleaaasssse?
-