Difference between revisions of "386BSD 0.0"
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I'll have to find a way to nicely re-create a Connor disk that has a disktab for 386BSD to make a 'like like' install, which didn't work. I think the only way out will be to make some disks, and boot it on a real pc with a hard disk that I've used to image [[Xenix]] and see if any emulator will load the disk image. | I'll have to find a way to nicely re-create a Connor disk that has a disktab for 386BSD to make a 'like like' install, which didn't work. I think the only way out will be to make some disks, and boot it on a real pc with a hard disk that I've used to image [[Xenix]] and see if any emulator will load the disk image. | ||
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| + | Another hint from [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd/browse_thread/thread/730282ea5c509e45/52e9db40611b261f?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22386BSD+0.0%22+ide+label#52e9db40611b261f usenet] | ||
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| + | h...@pegasus.com (Huy Dinh) writes: | ||
| + | >Has anybody gotten the 386BSD 0.0 to boot off a Maxtor LXT213A IDE | ||
| + | >harddrive? I've managed to boot off the floppy, create a disktab | ||
| + | >entry for the drive, label it, and newfs the a and h partition. I | ||
| + | >do get error messages saying that there's a format error in the | ||
| + | >bad track table and an occasional extra-interrupt error. However, | ||
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| + | I dont know about the rest, but the bad format track error comes from | ||
| + | your disktab entry. If the drive is 1001 cylc (like mine) you have | ||
| + | to create a disk tab saying that is is 996 cylc. disktab/mkfs know that | ||
| + | they can go 5 cylcs beyond the value in the disktab entry. So in your case | ||
| + | if your drive ONLY has 1001 then disktab/mkfs was trying to format cylcs 1002 | ||
| + | to 1006 thus producing an error. </pre> | ||
== The 0.0 announcement == | == The 0.0 announcement == | ||
[[386BSD 0.0 announcement]] | [[386BSD 0.0 announcement]] | ||
Revision as of 21:14, 5 December 2010
So far I just found out that 386 BSD 0.0 runs on VMWare Fusion on OS X enough to run the floppy. I'm running into issues with the hard disk, with constant errors of:
wd0: Format error in bad sector file
Which I'm thinking ties back to geometry.
I'll have to find a way to nicely re-create a Connor disk that has a disktab for 386BSD to make a 'like like' install, which didn't work. I think the only way out will be to make some disks, and boot it on a real pc with a hard disk that I've used to image Xenix and see if any emulator will load the disk image.
Another hint from usenet
h...@pegasus.com (Huy Dinh) writes: >Has anybody gotten the 386BSD 0.0 to boot off a Maxtor LXT213A IDE >harddrive? I've managed to boot off the floppy, create a disktab >entry for the drive, label it, and newfs the a and h partition. I >do get error messages saying that there's a format error in the >bad track table and an occasional extra-interrupt error. However, I dont know about the rest, but the bad format track error comes from your disktab entry. If the drive is 1001 cylc (like mine) you have to create a disk tab saying that is is 996 cylc. disktab/mkfs know that they can go 5 cylcs beyond the value in the disktab entry. So in your case if your drive ONLY has 1001 then disktab/mkfs was trying to format cylcs 1002 to 1006 thus producing an error.
