On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:


> On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 12:57:04AM -0700, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> > Hi, I'm trying to use the bootlap[12].fs floppies to install 1.6 on my
> > Thinkpad 770 228 MB ram on enire HD (wd0 is 657 Cyl, 64 Heads, 63 Sec/Tr
> > 1296 MB).

> > Any suggestions?  And, has anybody else seen this problem with 1.6 install?
>
> Can you show disklabel and fdisk outputs ?
> Does it boot if you start from floppy and type at the boot prompt:
> boot wd0a:

> boot wd0a:
booting wd0a:netbsd
open wd0a:: Device not configured
boot: wd0a:netbsd: Device not configured
>


When booted with floppy:

# fdisk wd0
Disk: /dev/rwd0d
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 2633 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 657 heads: 64 sectors/track: 63 (4032 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 63, size 2654217 (1296 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder  656, head  63, sector 63
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>


# disklabel wd0
disk: mydisk
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 2633
total sectors: 2654280
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0            # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0   # microseconds
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
#      size    offset    fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
a:  2654217        63    4.2BSD   2048 16384   328   # Cyl.   0*- 2633*)
c:  2654217        63    unused      0     0         # Cyl.   0*- 2633*)
d:  2654280         0    unused      0     0         # Cyl.   0 - 2633*)
e:  2654217        63    unused      0     0         # Cyl.   0*- 2633*)
disklabel: warning, partition b: size 0, but offset 63


Thanks for any help.

-Mike

p.s. I typed this in, so please excuse typos. I double-checked the numbers.