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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news2.uunet.ca!uunet.ca!promis.com!modtor.uucp!modtor.emp.promis.com!pz From: pz@modtor.uucp (Peter Ziobrzynski) Subject: Re: More *BSD installation grief. Message-ID: <pz.749186750@modtor.emp.promis.com> Organization: Modular References: <280eic$eu4@acsc.com> <CE0LC6.AzI@wang.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 03:25:50 GMT Lines: 42 lar3ry gensch <lar3ry@world.std.com> writes: >fmayhar@acsc.com (Frank Mayhar) writes: >>_This_ time, I can't even get as far as I did with NetBSD. The kc floppy >>boots and asks for the filesystem floppy, which I provide. It then proceeds >>to go through its startup sequence. It finally prints a "ISA strayintr 7" >>message, indicates that it's changing the root filesystem to fd0a, and then >>hangs forever. >I had a similar problem with NetBSD and FreeBSD. I decided to >disable my ESDI disk (pulled out the power connector), and put in an >Adaptec SCSI adapter (1540A). I formatted a brand new 330 Mb SCSI >disk and started FreeBSD. It got to the point you did and hung. >On a hunch, I went back in and powered on the ESDI drive (although I >told the BIOS it wasn't there) and at the same point where it tries to >change the root filesystem to fd0a, I hear the ESDI drive seek a few >times, and then it succeeded. (Got a message that it couldn't read >the label off "wd0") >However, after spending A WEEK with various configurations of NetBSD >0.9 and FreeBSD 1.0-GAMMA, I have not been able to successfully get >the damn thing to install completely (I now get "sd0a" problems, and >see the drive power down after a boot... ARRRRGGGGGHHH!!!). My only >fallback position it to try to install Linux (either that or MS-DOS, >which is NOT an option). I have seen this. Check your floppies. Similar hanging happened to me when I had bad media or drive that I used to dd the floppy images. I repeated the dd on a good Sun floppy drive and all went ok. I successfully installed FreeBSD and NetBSD on ESDI WD1007 controller and Micropolis-1558 drive. Unfortunately both systems in their original kernels have SCSI disabled and I had to convert my QIC tapes to floppies to complete installations. This is going backwards from the 0.1 fixit floppies where all including SCSI and Ethenet worked fine. I guess to many people pull this project their own way these days. -- Peter Ziobrzynski, pz@modtor.emp.promis.com, Toronto, Ont. Canada