Subject: Re: Hd problem?
To: antonello <antonen@gmx.it>
From: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/10/2001 01:00:02
Our resident IDE expert is away for a week - in the meantime, could you
post the ide controller and wd lines from 'dmesg'?
Did you send the output from Linux because the NetBSD system isn't
booting - or just because you're more familliar with the tools? I wasn't
sure whether this was just a cosmetic issue or not.
David
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 09:50:23PM +0200, antonello wrote:
> I installed NetBSD 1.5 on my pc
> The hard disk's lights remains turned on thought the hd doesn't seem to work.
> Is it normal?
> I don't think that NetBSD is swapping: I've 128Mb Ram and I don't run X.
>
> This is the linux fdisk output
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 head, 63 sec, 1108 cyl
>
> /dev/hda1 1 264 2120548+ b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 * 526 844 2562367+ a9 unknow
> /dev/hda3 265 525 2096482+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 845 1108 2120580 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 845 959 923706 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 960 976 136521 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda7 977 1045 554211 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 1046 1108 506016 83 Linux
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> I use LILO as bootloader.
>
> thanks
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