Re: Quadra 800 acting strange

Hello,

I've had the same experience before with certain hard disks. I've tried 
many different disks, and it seems that only one disk 2GB or larger 
work. I've tried up to 9GB drives, and though they work fine under the 
Mac OS 7.6, they all fail at some point under OpenBSD. I don't know if 
the disk size is the issue or something else. If you have a smaller 
drive, that might work.

-- Michael

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 05:27 PM, Mathias Bolt Lesniak wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've just installed version 3.2 on an old Quadra 800, but my first 
> boot don't go like described in the INSTALL.mac68k file (Yes I have 
> followed it to point).
>
> When I boot up in single user mode I'm told to write the path to my 
> shell or ENTER to use sh. I've tried both just sh, csh, tcsh (with 
> appropriate paths). Then I'm asked to enter the shell type I've tested 
> a few; some work and some don't. Anyway when I get past this I get the 
> "#" prompt, but it's impossible to edit any of the files (myname, 
> mygate, etc.) in vi, because it tells me it's on a read-only file 
> system, which from what I know it is not (if that's the case it has to 
> have been set so by the installer(!)).
>
> When I boot up in multi-user mode the startup process hangs just 
> before the point where I'm asked for the shell info in single-user 
> mode.
>
> Not at any point am I asked to log in!
>
> During the startup I'm getting one warning about / not having been 
> properly unmounted.
>
> Technical info:
> 24MB RAM.
> One apr. 250MB disk (with root (214MB) and swap (30MB)) at SCSI ID 2
> One 2GB disk (with usr (apr. 1.5GB) and a HFS partition) at SCSI ID 0
>
>
> Hope somebody can help! I'm not a UNIX geek, but I'm learning! :-)
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mathias
> <[email protected]>
>
> -- 
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