From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 04:30:00 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA26157 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 04:30:00 -0700 Received: from beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Beastie.CS.und.ac.za [146.230.224.19]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA26147 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 04:29:50 -0700 Received: (from harverso@localhost) by beastie.cs.und.ac.za (8.6.11/8.6.11) id KAA00561 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:18:20 +0200 From: Tony Harverson Message-Id: <199507170818.KAA00561@beastie.cs.und.ac.za> Subject: S0S ! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:18:20 +0200 (SAT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2333 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ~~~|~~~ aka: Tony Harverson - the #za Stalker | rog = harverso@beastie.cs.und.ac.za "...Let us die young or let us live forever/We Don't have the power but we never say never.." - Alphaville