On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:20:35PM -0600, Jay Nelson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:15:17PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:14:26PM -0600, Jay Nelson wrote:
> > > I can't get a bootable install off one particular box and I'm hoping
> > > someone can help.
> > > 
> > > The disk probe on boot is returning a mode sense "too large to make
> > > sense" message (or similar -- I'm working from memory.) The number
> > > cylinders picked up in sysinstall are, in fact, too large. (Something
> > > in excess of 33,000) Changing the geometry in sysinstall has no
> > > effect.
> > 
> > Can you try to post the NetBSD boot message here ?
>  
> I'll try tonite. (The machine is at home.) All I will have to work
> with are the install floppies. Any suggestions on how best to save the
> message buffer?

It's /kern/msgbuf on the boot floppy.
The easiest would be to get network working, and copy it (nfs or ftp)
somewhere else.
Othewise if there are several OS installed you can try to mount a partition
and copy it there.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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