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From: peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it (G. Vitillaro)
Subject: Request of HELP!
Message-ID: <1993May27.190245.174288@ipgaix.unipg.it>
Keywords: Booting, emulated WD, Julian's boot blocks
Organization: Universita' di Perugia
Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 19:02:45 GMT
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I'm facing an interesting problem,
it seems that my HD controller emulate all the WD
(it is actually SCSI) command except what is needed
by the standard 386bsd to understand HD untrasleted geometry
(yes, I verified that with ide_conf).
So I cannot use standard boot blocks: I need Julian's
boot blocks, that use BIOS for first and second stage
boot.
Many people answered me that what I need are the kc
floppy of NetBSD, but when I boot from kc-aha floppy
it panics with an infamous "Trap 18" at the time to
mount the install1.fs floppy (this was already reported in
this group, but I didn't found an answer).
Then I think what I need are:
a) a dist.fs and fixit.fs with the Julian boot
blocks in place (in /usr/mdec) in place of
standard wdboot and bootwd;
(I don't know if having the boot for the floppy
is the case; seeing what happens with NetBSD)
or
b) the binaries already compiled of the boot blocks
and some explanation on how to mount them in the
dist.fs ot fixit.fs;
or
c) a way to boot a NetBSD kc floppy on my machine
avoiding the "Trap 18" (defined reserved in the FAQ);
Anybody here may help here on this?
Thank in advance, Peppe
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Giuseppe Vitillaro - IBM SEMEA | E-Mail : peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it
University of Perugia Italy | 06100 Perugia Phone:+39.75.585-2200
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