Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 16:41:34 --100 From: sf@salt.atb.CH (Steve Flasby) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 won't boot on my machine Message-ID: <9505021441.AA03742@mango.atb.ch>
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Hi I have a Compaq Contura Aero 4/33C with 12 Meg RAM & 255 Meg Disk space. I seem to be unable to get the thing to boot/install from floppy. The problem doesnt seem to be related to the boot disk as this works on both a big machine and a friends portable. Everything seems fine except for a couple of suspect lines in the boot information which follow. ... fdc0 at 0x3F0 0x3F7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: <----- This line is empty which looks bad wdc0 at 0x1F0-0x1F7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM DAYTONA256A> wd0: 244MB (501039 total sec), 723 cyl, 11 head, 53 sec, bytes/sec 512 ... npx0 on motherboard npx0: 387 Emulator changing root device to fd0c wdc0: extra interrupt wd0: changing size of 'd' partition from 498960 to 501039 Panic: cannot mount root and thats it. I guess I will need to use the -c option to kick it in but info on this option is a bit sparse. One other thing occurs to me, this machine has a Compaq specific setup/ check partition which you can drop into using a function key during boot, maybe I should dispose of this partition... Nope - its not that as I just deleted the partion using FDISK and tried booting again. Gloom. Finally I deleted ALL partitions on this rotten machine and it still doesn't boot. I give up. Has anyone out there managed to install FreeBSD on this evil Compaq box? Any help appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Flasby SCHWEIZERBOERSE - SWX email: sf@atb.ch EBS PROJECT phone: +41 1 286 8288 Bleicherweg 10, 8022 Zurich fax: +41 1 286 8496 SWITZERLAND -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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