From: glenc@netcom.com (Glen Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] Install problem! HELP!
Date: 19 Dec 92 21:38:28 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


Hello all again!

	Well I STILL have not been able to run 386bsd. So I have the
info for someone that can help with my problem below! Besides bying
another board/pc I would rather find the problem and get it fixed.
I also want to know since bsd is still in the development stages (
which every unix is never going to be complete, always soemthing
new a great comes along) I would like to know if there are some
good debugging programs or even keys to press to give me vital
stats on what's going on! Thanks in advance!
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BUG FINDER INFORMATION:

   NAME:Glen Collins
   EMAIL:root@genone.gentoo.com / glenc@netcom.com

PC  INFORMATION:

1.   What  is  your  PC system configuration? Please be
     specific, as  success  can  vary with a difference in
     manufacture date or variation.

	 386/486/387:  	                80386  (Name: Hot 307 board)
				Advanced Micro Devices CPU DX/DXL 40 Megahertz
	 Bios/Chipset	               AMI Bios (5/21/90)/ OPTI chipset
	 ISA/EISA/SCSI:                ISA
	 RAM size:                     4 Megs
	 drive(s) type and size:       Floppy 1: 1.2M
			               Floppy 2: 1.44M
			               Miniscribe 68M/ Rll'ed to 104M
	 tape(s) type and size:        Colorado 250M
	 ethernet type:	               NONE
	 graphics type:                Trident SVGA (1 meg onboard)
	 serial type:	               com1/com2 standard
	 parallel type:                lpt1 standard
	 other:		               proaudio spectrum 16(for dos scsi drive
			               Microsoft mouse

Bugs:

1.   What bugs have you found in this system? Please  attach
     any  pertinent  printouts and  system messages. Please
     also attach any bug fixes for others to use.


The following is what happens to my system with I try to install 386BSD.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

64 KB CACHE MEMORY
386BSD Release 0.1 by William and Lynne Jolitz. [0.1.24  07/14/92 19:07]
Copyright (c) 1989.1990,1991,1992 William F. Jolitz. All rights reserved.
Based in part on work by the 386BSD User Community and the
BSD Networking Software, Release 2 by UCB EECS Department.
pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa
com1 at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa
com1 at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa
wd0 at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa
fd0 drives 0: 1.2M, 1: 1.44M at 0x3f0 irq6 drg 2 on isa
changing root device to fd0a


warning: no swap space present (yet)
386BSD Distribution Installation Floppy (Tiny 386BSD) Release 0.1

Please read the installation notes (type 'zmore INSTALL.NOTES')
and registration information (type 'more REGISTRATION') before use.
To install on hard disk drive, type 'install'.


erase ^?, werase ^H, kill ^U, intr ^C
# install -debug
 bios finds: cyl 1024 heads 8 sectors 26
Partitions:
offset   size     type    flag
26       20566    1       80
20592    61568    5       0
0        0        0       0
0        0        0       0
63 MB free. How many megabytes would you like for 386BSD? 63
386BSD partition:
start 82160 size 129168 ssect 41 scyl 8b esect da ecyl f7 typ a5
Should your 63 MB 386BSD partition be created on the disk drive? (y/n) y
Do you want to install 386BSD in the disk drive's 386BSD partition? (y/n) y
making root size 118560 offset 82160
making swap size 10000 offset 200828
label written at sector 82160
High level formatting of 386BSD disk storage:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is where is system hangs. I cannot do a warm reboot, I either must press
the reset button or turn the machine off.

What I have done:
	Taken out all but the video card.
		Even used a mono card in place of the svga card.
	Reformatted the hard drive to 68 megs (mfm).
	Increased memory from 4 to 6 megs.
	Changed various bios/chipset settings.
		Cache/ no cache
		AT wait state
		Changed Bus speed from 8 Megahertz to 6 Megahertz
		Memory reads/write wait states
		Only the 1.2m floppy
		Only the 1.44M floppy
		Disablled the harddrive onboard bios, let the AMI bios
	                        tell BSD how many heads, cyl's and the such.
	FTP'd the fixed dist.fs from berkeley for the WD and even the
		 ethernet controller fix just in case there was some
		 kind of problem with compatibuility.
	Even tried to install from the fixit floppy, but the system seems
	         to hang
	         when I try to disklabel the drive.(With the wd fix from agate)

And still the system hangs. I even purchased a new controller (mfm) and
cables to see if there was a problem with the rll controller I was using.
Still the same problem!





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The flollowing  is the disklabel after the install program does  it's
thing and hangs!


# disklabel -r wd0a
/dev/rwd0a:
type: st506
disk:
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 26
track/cylinder: 8
cylinders: 1024
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # miliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # miliseconds
drivedata: 0


3 partitions:
#       size    offset  fstype  [fsize bsize    cpg]
  a:  118560     82160  unused       0     0            # (Cyl.   395 - 964)
  b:   10000    200828  unused       0     0            # (Cyl.   965*- 1013*)
  c:  129168     82160  unused       0     0            # (Cyl.   395 - 1015)


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The disk I have is a Micropolis 6085 68 Megs formatted. I have it
rll'ed to 104 with a 10meg dos boot annd 30 meg D drive. The rest
is avaliable for 386bsd (63megs I think)  Any Ideas????


Help!!!!!

Glen Collins
	glenc@netcom.com
	root@genone.gentoo.com
	fred@seer.gentoo.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd