I installed W98se from a floppy onto this disk, and it booted just fine from
HD into W98se.

Then I re-installed NetBSD over this.  Still doesn't boot into NetBSD.

Well, here's dmesg (when I boot from floppy):

NetBSD 1.6 (INSTALL_TINY) #0: Sun Sep  8 20:17:36 UTC 2002
    autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/INSTALL_TINY
cpu0: Intel Pentium/MMX (Tillamook) (586-class)
cpu0: features 8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
cpu0: features 8001bf<MMX>
total memory = 223 MB
avail memory = 216 MB
using 20 buffers containing 81920 of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfd820
mainbus0 (root)
isa0 at mainbus0
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA MK1301MAV>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 1296 MB, 2633 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2654280 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
wdc1 at isa0 port 0x170-0x177 irq 15
atapibus0 at wdc1 channel 0: 2 targets
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2002, 3800500494, 1120> type 5 cdrom removable
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
pc0: console
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xdffff irq
pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has sockets A and B
pcic0: controller 1 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has no sockets
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1
biomask fffd netmask fffd ttymask ffff
pcic0: controller 0 detecting irqs with mask 0xde00:..9..10
pcic0: using irq 9 for socket events
md0: internal 1440 KB image area
boot device: fd0
root on md0a dumps on md0b
root file system type: ffs

fdisk output:

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: <UNUSED>
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: 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


# /dev/rwd0d:
type: unknown
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*)


So I don't know; anything else I can try?

Thanks!  -Mike




On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 01:24:23 +0200
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Nasty 1.6 install problem with Thinkpad 770
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 02:51:19PM -0700, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> > 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
>
> Hum this is really strange, are you sure your BIOS knows about the disk ?
>
> The fdisk and disklabel looks fine.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
>