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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!nocusuhs!nmrdc1!rdc30 From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD Install problem + solution Message-ID: <1992Jul17.193043.5249@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Date: 17 Jul 92 19:30:43 GMT Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command Lines: 32 I encountered a problem when installing the new release of 386BSD over the previous version on my hard drive (a CP2064) and after much fiddling, solved it. In case others have the same problem, I'll provide the details and solution. The bootup and install all seemed to go fine, my hard drive was properlly indentified and the other installed devices as well. Since I had a previous version installed on the entire hd (the Butler no-fpu kernel), I answered yes to the questions about re-installing and using the entire hd. Everything went well untill the reboot off the newly installed hd. After identifying the installed devices, it complained about a missing bad sector table on wd0, asserted a vm_fault and went into an automatic reboot. After much fiddling, I determined that the problem was the new partitioning of the hd without the bad sector table, but the disklabel still had the "sf" flag (bad144 style bad sector table) asserted. This was causing the errors and panic and reboot. To correct the problem, I booted off the old kernel boot floppy, edited the disktab to create a new entry with the same partions as the install program had created but left off the "sf" option since this is an IDE drive. I then used disklabel to write out the corrected version and rebooted from the hd. No errors!! Next step is to get bindist onto the hd. Looks like the new install, needs to more completely write over the old disklabel contents if the autodetermined params differ from the old ones. Mike LCDR Mike Dobson, Sys Admin for | Internet: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | UUCP: ...uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30 AT&T 3B2/600G Sys V R 3.2.3 | BITNET: dobson@usuhsb or nrd0mxd@vmnmdsc WIN/TCP for 3B2 R3.2 | MCI-Mail: 377-2719 or 0003772719@mcimail.com