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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!netix!netix!not-for-mail From: crn@netix.org.uk (C. Newport) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Install problem - HELP please Date: 21 Jun 1996 00:38:46 -0000 Organization: The Netix Consultancy Lines: 47 Message-ID: <4qcqum$1m7@netix.telecall.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: netix.telecall.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: netix.demon.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3810 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21785 I am having a strange problem installing NetBSD or FreeBSD on one of my machines. Symptom:- After hitting <Ret> to the Boot: prompt, the floppy disk is read for about 20 seconds, then the system reboots. On NetBSD a message C:0 H:1 S:0 ( counts to 10 ) is displayed before the reboot takes place. FreeBSD does not show this. Hardware: Unisys PW2/800 16MHz 386 fitted with 80387. 5 Mb memory as 1Mb plus Unisys 4Mb board. 210 Mb IDE hard disk, using patched entry in BIOS disk table, ST1239A 818cyl, 14 heads, 36 sectors/track. 3.5 floppy as A:, 5.25 as B: NE2000 Network adaptor on 280, IRQ 12. 2 Serial + printer + games board ( internal ports disabled ). 3E8 IRQ4, 2E8 IRQ3, lp0 IRQ7. Archive 60Mb DC600 tape drive on 220, IRQ5 DMA3. Hercules MDA display adaptor. This configuation has worked fine with 30 + 60 Mb Dos partitions and 120 Mb SCO Xenix. It has also worked with Slackware Linux instead of Xenix. I first tried booting from floppy using the NetBSD image from a Nov 95 BSDisk CD from Infomagic. When this failed I tried several floppies in case of errors, and then tried FreeBDS also from the InfoMagic CD. At this point I removed the Network and Tape controller boards in case of stray IRQs etc, but this made no difference. I then gave up and tried installing Slackware Linux, it works OK first time, so the hardware seems to be OK. Xenix also installs OK. Any inspirations ???. I need to use BSD on this machine rather than Linux as it will be used as a RARP/Bootp server for a diskless MVME143 system which apparantly cannot be done under Linux. When I can get past this initial hurdle I will be installing from the CDROM which is NFS mounted from my main (Linux) server. TIA, -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Newport, The Netix Consultancy, Clevedon, North Somerset, UK. crn@netix.org.uk | crn@netix.telecall.co.uk | crn@netix.demon.co.uk In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. ( big bang theory ).