On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:11:57PM +0000, kent wrote:
> I have an Epox 8k7a box that is currently running 1.5.2 off of scsi
> drives. I picked up a new 40MB Seagate ATAIV (ST340016A) drive and
> tried to install NetBSD on it:
> 
> With 1.5.2, it installs fine, but I get the 'invalid partition
> table' error when I try to boot off of it. I have to boot with
> something else and invoke installboot to get the bios to see this
> drive for booting.
> 
> With the latest snapshot :
> /pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20020410-1.5ZC-XFree86-4.2.0 the
> kern-GENERIC.tgz I pulled off of several mirrors (also) was corrupted.

There was a disk problem on the ftp server. It should be fixed now.

> hopefully a fixed one will be available soon, however:
> 
> 1) I had to manually invoke installboot again with this installation
> 
> 2) I tried creating two partitions and booting off of the first
> (among other things). Same results
> 
> 3) the installer program locked up every time I exited it normally.
> (anyone else have this problem?)

Yes, it should be fixed.

> 
> This is a new 40G drive with a fairly new mb/bios. Why can't NetBSD
> boot off of it without manually setting up a boot partition?
> 
> Interestingly, this box it takes only ~35 seconds to unpack and
> install all of the 'standard with X11' sets to this new drive -
> looking forward to using it.
> 
> -----------------------------
> info:
> 
> pchb0: Advanced Micro Devices product 0x700e (rev. 0x13)
> ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: Advanced Micro Devices product 0x700f (rev. 0x00)
> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
> pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
> vga1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0: ATI Technologies product 0x5246 (rev. 0x00)
> wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
> pcib0: VIA Technologies VT82C686A (Apollo KX133) PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x40)
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: VIA Technologies VT82C686A (Apollo KX133) ATA1
> 00 controller
> pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
> pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST340016A>
> wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
> wd0: 38166 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 78165360 sectors
> wd0: 32-bit data port
> wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5
> pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (using DMA data transfers)
> 
> 
> $ fdisk /dev/rwd0
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1024 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
> 
> Partition table:
> 0: <UNUSED>
> 1: <UNUSED>
> 2: <UNUSED>
> 3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>     start 63, size 78165297 (38166 MB), flag 0x80
>         beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
>         end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
> 
> (disklabel)
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>   a:  2140929       63     4.2BSD     1024  8192    86   # (Cyl.    0*- 2123)
>   b:  4196304  2140992       swap                        # (Cyl. 2124 - 6286)
>   c: 78165297       63     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0*- 77544)
>   d: 78165360        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 77544)
>   e: 71828064  6337296     4.2BSD     1024  8192    86   # (Cyl. 6287 - 77544)

This all looks good. What setting do you have in the BIOS for the drive ?
There are usually different settings possible in the geometry section,
like "automatic", "LBA", "large",  etc ...

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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