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partition error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth K Pang)
Sun Jul 16 00:01:59 1995
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:01:41 EDT
From: Kenneth K Pang <kennethp@MIT.EDU>
I got an input/output error when I tried to install Netbsd through
RESNET. Everything works normally, until it looks for a NETBSD
partition. I have 2 hard drives and the first one is an IDE, which
contains 2 partition, one for dos (cylinder 1 - 224) and the other
one for netbsd (cylinder 225 - 528, ID=165, created by using pfdisk
from dos). The second disk is a SCSI II which it is used for dos
only. I tried using both nfsaha.fs and nfsbt.fs and they both
fail the same way. Some errors like "Lost Contact : status 0 error 0"
were displayed. A dos partition error is also displayed before it
locates the netbsd partition. It behaves the way that it thought
that the netbsd partition starts from sector 0 to something like
2 million (1033 MB). Indeed, according to pfdisk, the partition
starts from sector 453600 to 612864 (the first partition for dos
starts from 63 to 453597). It then asks me for the starting
sector, with the default to be 1. I entered 453600. Then, it
asks for the ending sector, and I entered the respective number.
Then it goes on to installation and experience the same kind of
error before ("lost contact..."). The last error before the
installation stops is something like "Writing Input/Output error".
Any hint?
Thank you very much.
--Kenneth Pang
