[1274] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: Installation problem on Adaptec 1542C + SCSI HD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin Foo)
Sat Aug 15 13:19:19 1998
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:19:01 -0400
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980815102307.007d7bb0@po10.mit.edu>
FYI -- I tried the prelease floppy in
/mit/netbsd/prelease/athena-8.0/floppies/floppy.fs (at suggestion of
nathanw), and got further. It now can see a NetBSD partition's existence,
and asks me the sizes of partitions I want, whether I want to reboot,
etc.etc. But right after I say "yes" to everything the script just fails
and reboots.
My SCSI CD-ROM drive seems to be auto-detecting as a SCSI hard disk. Not
sure why.
-Edwin
At 10:23 AM 8/15/98 -0400, Edwin Foo wrote:
>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
>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Edwin Foo | MIT Computer Science - BS '98, MEng. '99
>efoo@mit.edu | Compaq Computer Corp. - Cambridge Research Lab
>(617) 225-9715 | Residential Computing Consultant (RCC) Developer
>
> "Love must be sincere; Hate what is evil; cling to what is good."
>http://hesed.mit.edu/~efoo - Romans 12:9 <><
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Edwin Foo | MIT Computer Science - BS '98, MEng. '99
efoo@mit.edu | Compaq Computer Corp. - Cambridge Research Lab
(617) 225-9715 | Residential Computing Consultant (RCC) Developer
"Love must be sincere; Hate what is evil; cling to what is good."
http://hesed.mit.edu/~efoo - Romans 12:9 <><
------------------------------------------------------------------------
