Subject: port-i386/570: can't install netbsd on thinkpad 750
To: None <gnats-admin@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: None <moore@cs.utk.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/11/1994 12:35:13
>Number: 570
>Category: port-i386
>Synopsis: netbsd hangs during installation on thinkpad 750
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 11 12:35:13 1994
>Originator: Keith Moore
>Organization:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
>Release:
>Environment:
thinkpad 750, 2.88Mb fd, 82077 fdc, 20Mb memory, docking station, wd8003e enet, 170Mb disk
System: NetBSD anger 1.0 NetBSD 1.0 (ANGER) #3: Mon Oct 31 00:52:14 EST 1994 moore@anger:/mnt/netbsd/tp750/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ANGER i386
>Description:
When trying to install netbsd 1.0 on a thinkpad 750, the system
hangs during the install procedure a few seconds after the
install script prints
"Populating filesystems with bootstrapping binaries and config
files"
The floppy disk light is on when the machine gets wedged and
it remains on.
>How-To-Repeat:
(first, patch boot/disk.c to test for a 36 sector/track floppy
and act as if it were 18 sectors/track...install that boot program
on a netbsd kernel-copy disk, then try to install netbsd normally)
>Fix:
unknown
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: