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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!weema.chi.uwa.edu.au!johng From: johng@chi.uwa.edu.au (John Gibbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] help: wd0: cannot find label (no disk label) after install(solved) Date: 22 Oct 92 02:35:51 GMT Organization: The University of Westrn Australia Lines: 27 Message-ID: <johng.719721351@weema> References: <johng.719547584@weema> NNTP-Posting-Host: weema.chi.uwa.edu.au I have fixed the problem. In retrospect, looking through the news group, I am not alone. It looks like the problem occurs mainly on Connor disks. The problem seems to be related to the bios not using physical disk geometry but a translated geometry. Once I told the bios to use "User defined" rather than type 9 for the disk I had no problems. The geometry I had to specify for the 120Mb disk was 761 cyl, 8 heads and 39 sectors. Thanks to all those who responded to my query. Sorry about the stuffed return address, I'll have to fix nn here. In comp.unix.bsd I wrote: >After booting the dist.fs floppy and running install, the PC boots off >hard disk but then is unable to mount / due to the above error. >I tried Terry's FAQ list, but failed to find the fix. >The machine is a clone 486DX-50 (not DX2-50) with a 120Mb (112 effective) >Connor disk and a WD clone ethernet card. The disk is partitioned with >62Mb for DOS and 50Mb for 386BSD. >Any help would be greatly appeciated. I am using Terry's dist.fs-noIS to >do the install. -- John Gibbins The Western Australian Research Institute The University of Western Australia for Child Health Ltd ,-_|\ email: johng@chi.uwa.edu.au GPO Box D184 / \ Phone: +61-9-3408547 PERTH W.A. 6001 *_,-._/ Fax: +61-9-3883414 AUSTRALIA v "Nothing is foolproof as fools are so ingenious"