Subject: Re: Nasty 1.6 install problem with Thinkpad 770
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/15/2002 01:24:23
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.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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