Does sysint give any error messages when failing to write the
	disklabel under 1.3.3?

	As for the current snapshot - are ther any error messages before
	the 'md0: / file system full', and could you check if there is
	a core file on the filesystem?

		David/absolute

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|          too drunk to care          |    the hell of the night before    |
|  looked like death, felt like hell  |   I've been drinking myself blind  |
`------ been the worse for wear ------'-- and still I'll drink some more --'

On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Oleg Polyanski wrote:

> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 23:34:40 +0300
> From: Oleg Polyanski <luke@eed.miee.ru>
> To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: installing on i386 
> 
> hello.
> 
> 	i have some strange problems when trying to install
> netbsd on my pc. i have enough memory, tekram 390u (ncr875)
> scsi adapter, atapi cdrom. during boot process neither of ide
> channels was recognized. so, i'm unable to use my cdrom.
> another problem is with disklabel. i have 6Gb scsi disk with
> real geometry 9006/6/235 (c/h/s), scsi bios requires 791/64/255
> (or 6004/32/64). i choose fake geometry (that matches real
> geometry, ie 9006/6/235) and go next. in the next step, disklabel
> program fails to write disklabel, kernel complains 
> `sd1: no disk label'. when i run `disklabel -r sd1' in shell i
> see 255 (!) heads instead of choosen 6 (in fake geometry menu).
> here the installation is aborted. investigation in /kern/msgbuf
> does not help - nothing interesting is there.
> 
> 	could anyone suggest anything useful or point to my
> mistakes? any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> p.s. the most mysterious for me is that neither netbsd 1.3.2 nor
> netbsd 1.3.3 won't to be installed into my disk with the exactly 
> same results. i tried to install from snapshot boot floppy
> (november snapshot) and both of ide channels *was* recognized)
> but installation program does not work - aborts with message
> `md0: / file system full'. if it is important - i try to install
> netbsd on p-II box, intel 440bx chipset, plenty of RAM etc,
> tekram scsi adapter.
>