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Installation problem on Adaptec 1542C + SCSI HD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin Foo)
Sat Aug 15 10:23:18 1998
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:23:07 -0400
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I thought I'd come back to NetBSD and give it a shot after being away in
Linux-land for the past few years, so I started reinstalling on an old
machine of mine. As the subject says, I have installation problems upon
bootup -- namely I get messages to the effect of:
aha0: DMA beyond end of ISA
sd0: could not mode sense (4) -- using ficticious geometry
sd(aha:0:0): could not get size
sd0: no disklabel
Looking through the FAQ, I've figured out what the messages mean, but I
can't seem to gather just how to proceed. I've tried using pfdisk, DOS
fdisk and format to put a MBR on the HD that the installation script can
read, but that doesn't help. I thought I recalled being able to set the
disk geometry in the SIPB installer the last time I tried NetBSD: is that
option still around somewhere, or am I supposed to prepare the disk somehow
by another method?
-Edwin
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