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From: "Manfred Sand" <sand@uni-muenster.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Newbie: Install-Problems on i386
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:30:16 +0100
Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany
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Hi,
I have some proplems installing NetBSD 1.2 on a new Pentium-System.
System:
Asus P/I-P55TVP4 with Pentium 133Mhz
NCR PCI-SC200 SCSI Card
IBM DORS 32160-U 2.1 GB
1) Install-Disk
Booting the Kernel from floppy is OK, reading the Root-FS
gives me following errors:
fdcresult: timeout
fd0a: soft error reading fsbn 2124 of 2120-2125
fdcresult: timeout
fd0: timeout (st0 80<invld> cyl 33)
fda0 soft error reading fsbn 1192 of 1192-1199
...
I tried several floppy-disks, copied inst-12.fs from
Windows95, DOS and Linux to floppy and tried inst-12.fs
from several NetBSD mirror-sites - always the same result.
Relevant part from Boot-Messages:
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2head, 18 sec
In all cases the Installation-procedure continues.
2) Disk-Geometry:
I also have to install Linux on this machine
so I partioned the Hard-Disk with linux-fdisk.
Disk /dev/sda 1017 cylinder 67 heads 62 sectors
units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1 25 51899 4 DOS
/dev/sda2 26 26 371 718642 a5 BSD/386
/dev/sda3 372 372 1017 1341742 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 372 372 618 512988 83 Linux native
After my first problems I created according to the FAQ a DOS-Partition
so NetBSD should recognize the right(??) Disk-Geometry.
Booting NetBSD from the installation-disks gives a completly
different mapping:
ncr0 at pci0 dev 11 function0: NCR 53c810 SCSI
ncr0: interrupting at irq 11
ncr0: restart( scsi reset)
scsibus0 at ncr0
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <IBM, DORS-32160, WAGA> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: sd0(ncr0:6:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10MB/sec) offset 8
2063 MB, 6703 cyl, 5 head, 126 sec, 512 bytes/sec
I tried both mappings during the installation
and after creating the filesystem in NetBSD, booting into Linux
shows only one Partition left (/dev/sda4) with fdisk complaining
partition 4 has different physical/logical ending.
Can anybody explain how to get the correct parameters for the
Disk-Geometry ?
3) Ethernet-Interface
During boot the card is correct recognized:
ed2 at isa0 port 0x300-0x31f iomem 0xcc000-0xcffff irq 10
ed2: address: 00:00:c0:86:da:a9, type SMC8216/SMC8216C (16-bit) aui
ie1: StarLAN 10 does not have soft configuration
What is ie1 ?
After configuration and setting up routes every access to
the device gives following error:
ed2: device timeout
I'm quite sure it is no interrupt-conflict and I tried
every possible combination of link0|link1|link2 from ifconfig.
(The card works on the same machine with Linux)
Thanks in advance for any help.