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From: glenc@netcom.com (Glen Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] Install problem! HELP!
Message-ID: <1992Dec19.213828.22125@netcom.com>
Date: 19 Dec 92 21:38:28 GMT
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Hello all again!
Well I STILL have not been able to run 386bsd. So I have the
info for someone that can help with my problem below! Besides bying
another board/pc I would rather find the problem and get it fixed.
I also want to know since bsd is still in the development stages (
which every unix is never going to be complete, always soemthing
new a great comes along) I would like to know if there are some
good debugging programs or even keys to press to give me vital
stats on what's going on! Thanks in advance!
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BUG FINDER INFORMATION:
NAME:Glen Collins
EMAIL:root@genone.gentoo.com / glenc@netcom.com
PC INFORMATION:
1. What is your PC system configuration? Please be
specific, as success can vary with a difference in
manufacture date or variation.
386/486/387: 80386 (Name: Hot 307 board)
Advanced Micro Devices CPU DX/DXL 40 Megahertz
Bios/Chipset AMI Bios (5/21/90)/ OPTI chipset
ISA/EISA/SCSI: ISA
RAM size: 4 Megs
drive(s) type and size: Floppy 1: 1.2M
Floppy 2: 1.44M
Miniscribe 68M/ Rll'ed to 104M
tape(s) type and size: Colorado 250M
ethernet type: NONE
graphics type: Trident SVGA (1 meg onboard)
serial type: com1/com2 standard
parallel type: lpt1 standard
other: proaudio spectrum 16(for dos scsi drive
Microsoft mouse
Bugs:
1. What bugs have you found in this system? Please attach
any pertinent printouts and system messages. Please
also attach any bug fixes for others to use.
The following is what happens to my system with I try to install 386BSD.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
64 KB CACHE MEMORY
386BSD Release 0.1 by William and Lynne Jolitz. [0.1.24 07/14/92 19:07]
Copyright (c) 1989.1990,1991,1992 William F. Jolitz. All rights reserved.
Based in part on work by the 386BSD User Community and the
BSD Networking Software, Release 2 by UCB EECS Department.
pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa
com1 at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa
com1 at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa
wd0 at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa
fd0 drives 0: 1.2M, 1: 1.44M at 0x3f0 irq6 drg 2 on isa
changing root device to fd0a
warning: no swap space present (yet)
386BSD Distribution Installation Floppy (Tiny 386BSD) Release 0.1
Please read the installation notes (type 'zmore INSTALL.NOTES')
and registration information (type 'more REGISTRATION') before use.
To install on hard disk drive, type 'install'.
erase ^?, werase ^H, kill ^U, intr ^C
# install -debug
bios finds: cyl 1024 heads 8 sectors 26
Partitions:
offset size type flag
26 20566 1 80
20592 61568 5 0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
63 MB free. How many megabytes would you like for 386BSD? 63
386BSD partition:
start 82160 size 129168 ssect 41 scyl 8b esect da ecyl f7 typ a5
Should your 63 MB 386BSD partition be created on the disk drive? (y/n) y
Do you want to install 386BSD in the disk drive's 386BSD partition? (y/n) y
making root size 118560 offset 82160
making swap size 10000 offset 200828
label written at sector 82160
High level formatting of 386BSD disk storage:
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This is where is system hangs. I cannot do a warm reboot, I either must press
the reset button or turn the machine off.
What I have done:
Taken out all but the video card.
Even used a mono card in place of the svga card.
Reformatted the hard drive to 68 megs (mfm).
Increased memory from 4 to 6 megs.
Changed various bios/chipset settings.
Cache/ no cache
AT wait state
Changed Bus speed from 8 Megahertz to 6 Megahertz
Memory reads/write wait states
Only the 1.2m floppy
Only the 1.44M floppy
Disablled the harddrive onboard bios, let the AMI bios
tell BSD how many heads, cyl's and the such.
FTP'd the fixed dist.fs from berkeley for the WD and even the
ethernet controller fix just in case there was some
kind of problem with compatibuility.
Even tried to install from the fixit floppy, but the system seems
to hang
when I try to disklabel the drive.(With the wd fix from agate)
And still the system hangs. I even purchased a new controller (mfm) and
cables to see if there was a problem with the rll controller I was using.
Still the same problem!
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The flollowing is the disklabel after the install program does it's
thing and hangs!
# disklabel -r wd0a
/dev/rwd0a:
type: st506
disk:
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 26
track/cylinder: 8
cylinders: 1024
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # miliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # miliseconds
drivedata: 0
3 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 118560 82160 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 395 - 964)
b: 10000 200828 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 965*- 1013*)
c: 129168 82160 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 395 - 1015)
---------- end -------------
The disk I have is a Micropolis 6085 68 Megs formatted. I have it
rll'ed to 104 with a 10meg dos boot annd 30 meg D drive. The rest
is avaliable for 386bsd (63megs I think) Any Ideas????
Help!!!!!
Glen Collins
glenc@netcom.com
root@genone.gentoo.com
fred@seer.gentoo.com