OK, I got a bootable SCSI card, and the system is willing to boot from it,
but getting the disk set up so I can actually boot from it seems to be
rocket science, and I'm not grokking it.

I've played with the geometry, twisting its head in various pointy little
ways, and had instances of: reboot as soon as it loads the mbr, complaints
of no operating system, and looking for various kernel incantations and
not finding them.

This is what I'm currently reading from the various utilities.  Can
someone tell me if I'm on the right track, or point me to a guide that
will Do The Right Thing?  I want the whole disk to be NetBSD...

Thanks,
~~Steve


DOS pfdisk:
pfdisk> l
# Partition table on device: 0
geometry 1023 64 32 (cyls heads sectors)
#  ID  First(cyl)  Last(cyl)  Name  # start, length (sectors)
1   0      0          0       empty # 0, 0
2   0      0          0       empty # 0, 0
3   0      0          0       empty # 0, 0
4 169      0       8738       unkno # 32, 17897440
# note:  last(4): phys=(1023,63,32) logical=(8738,63,32)
active: 4


NetBSD 1.3H install floppy fdisk:
# fdisk sd0
******* Working on device /dev/rsd0d *******
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=11474 heads=5 sectors/track=312 (1560 sectors/cylinder)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cylinder 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=11474 heads=5 sectors/track=312 (1560 sectors/cylinder)

Information from DOS bootblock is:
0: <UNUSED>
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 32, size 17897440 (8738 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder 1023, head  63, sector 32



NetBSD 1.4M fdisk:
# fdisk sd0
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 11474 heads: 5 sectors/track: 312 (1560 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1023 heads: 64 sectors/track: 32 (2048 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: <UNUSED>
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 32, size 17897440 (8738 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder 1023, head  63, sector 32


# disklabel sd0
# /dev/rsd0d:
type: SCSI
disk: Gateway
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 312
tracks/cylinder: 5
sectors/cylinder: 1560
cylinders: 11474
total sectors: 17899440
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           #milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  #milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:   305728       32    4.2BSD     1024  8192   16   # (Cyl.    0*- 195)
  b:  1048288   305760      swap                       # (Cyl.  196 - 867*)
  c: 17899408       32    unused        0     0        # (Cyl.    0*- 11473)
  d: 17899440        0    unused        0     0        # (Cyl.    0 - 11473)
  e: 16545392  1354048    4.2BSD     1024  8192   16   # (Cyl.  867*- 11473)


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without looking to see whether the seeds move.

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It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.
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