Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:18:20 +0200 (SAT) From: Tony Harverson <harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: S0S ! Message-ID: <199507170818.KAA00561@beastie.cs.und.ac.za>
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Morning all,
This is now an official S0S - I am at my wits end with 2.0.5's install.
When I installed 2.0 on the machine in question, it detected the geometry
of the 640mb scsi perfect (well, I dunno if it was perfect, but it worked -
boot blocks in the right place and all) Anyway, a 2.0 kernel detects the
drive to have geometry 1632/15/53 but the 2.0 install detects 1650/15/53
(which worked last time) putting these geometries into the install of 2.0.5
has been no help (it also uses 1650 in the install, but putting 1632 has
been tried with no effect). I've tried everything from 2 paritions ( both
freebsd ( 25mb active one with the / filesystem on) to a full disk as
freebsd with a 25mb / filesystem ( this was the old system) all with
absolutely NO luck. If booted off a floppy and pointed to sd0, then the
system works (telneting from there to my current machine at the moment) but
the boot blocks seem determined not to write to the proper place - all I'm
getting is that wonderful 'Missing Operating System' Message.
Below is an edited version of the systems dmesg (took out everything that is
not related to the disk..
FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun 10 10:46:56 1995
jkh@westhill.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
real memory = 16384000 (4000 pages)
avail memory = 14807040 (3615 pages)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: MDA/hercules <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 at 0x280-0x29f irq 5 maddr 0xd8000 msize 16384 on isa
ed0: address 00:00:c0:64:89:23, type WD8013EBT (16 bit)
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: NEC 72065B
fd0: 1.2MB 5.25in
fd1: 1.44MB 3.5in
ahb0 not found
aha0: AHA-1542CF BIOS v2.01-VB.0, enabling mailbox, enabling residuals
aha0: reading board settings, dma=6 int=14 (bus speed defaulted)
aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 14 drq 6 on isa
aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
(aha0:0:0): "CDC 94191-15 0815" type 0 fixed SCSI 1
sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 640MB (1312150 512 byte sectors)
changing root device to sd0a
(thats using the instal disk to boot onto sd0)
HELP
Tony
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