Subject: Re: fdcresult: timeout.
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/14/1996 02:35:00
Neil J. McRae writes:
>The install kernel boots fine then starts timing out and the machine
>eventually hangs. This starts just after the
>WARNING: no swap space found, i.e. when the root fs is now fd0a.
I see the same errors on a new Gigabyte 430HX board. Fortunately, the
kernel doesn't hang but gets mostly soft errors reading the floppy. I
was able to get enough of the installation binaries on the harddisk to
continue with the installation.
I have the problems with both 1.2 and with -current as of 2 weeks ago.
The supplier mumbled something about the "floppy mode 3" being a known
source for this type of problem. Disabling that mode in the BIOS
setup didn't change anything, though.
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Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
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