kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell) (07/11/90)
NOTE: I known that this is kind of long, but I wanted to give as much
information as I thought was neccesary.
I am the proud owner of a:
Make: Gateway 2000
Processor: Intel 80386 with 64k cache.
Processor speed: 25Mhz
Main Memory: 4 Meg.
Disk: 110Meg ESDI
Display: NEC 3D 1024x780 VGA
I am also the owner of AT&T System 5 version 3.1 UNIX. Unfortunately I
cannot get the two to play together. When I boot the PC from the base
system disk, I get the "BOOTING THE UNIX SYSTEM" message, but from there on
it is all down hill. First of all it appears as though it does not support
VGA, I had to tell my video controller to run in EGA mode before I would
see any after the "BOOTING THE UNIX SYSTEM" message. Is this right?
Should it be able to support VGA?
After the "BOOTING THE UNIX SYSTEM" message, it ask me if I want to install
UNIX onto my hard disk, I type return and it puts me into the disk
partitioning screen. From there I setup my UNIX and DOS partitions and
everything seems to be fine until I get to the next prompt where it ask me
how I want my UNIX partition separated (ie. how much in the '/' or ROOT
directory, how much in /usr directory, and how much in the SWAP area).
When I tell that program that I am satisfied with a setup, it seems to just
hang. The hard disk light does not flash, the floppy does not move,
nothing, it just sits there like it is still waiting for something. After
some investigation I found that it is in a program called 'disksetup'. It
is passed a option of '-v' which forces it to do surface analysis on the
UNIX partition before ask how I want to set it up, which it does just fine.
So the only thing that I can think of is that version 3.1 does not support
an ESDI drive. Can anybody confirm that? Does anybody have a patch that I
can install to allow it to support it? Or, am I totally out in left field
and something else is wrong.
Does anybody know what disksetup is suppose to do? I can't really see why
it should hang like that, cause by looking at the INSTALL script, it looks
like it is just suppose to create some configuration files to be passed to
mkfs and mkpart.
Please help, cause this much of a PC is useless without a real operating
system like UNIX.
Thanks in advance,
Keith Cantrell
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------wsinpdb@lso.win.tue.nl (Paul de Bra) (07/11/90)
In article <777@digi.lonestar.org> kcantrel@digi.lonestar.org (Keith Cantrell) writes: >I am the proud owner of a: >... > Disk: 110Meg ESDI > Display: NEC 3D 1024x780 VGA > >I am also the owner of AT&T System 5 version 3.1 UNIX. Unfortunately I >cannot get the two to play together. When I boot the ... Nope, sVr3.2u (sVr3.2 version 2.1) is the first one that supports VGA. I tried vanilla 3.1 and 3.2 and the do not work. 3.2u does. >When I tell that program that I am satisfied with a setup, it seems to just >hang. The hard disk light does not flash, the floppy does not move, >nothing, it just sits there like it is still waiting for something.... >So the only thing that I can think of is that version 3.1 does not support >an ESDI drive. Can anybody confirm that? I tried 3.1 on an Everex 386/25 with Adaptec ESDI controller and it worked just fine. Most (if not all) ESDI controllers look just like ST-506 controllers to the AT-bus. The system doesn't know the difference. But AT&T Unix may be a bit fussy about what controller you use. Western Digital and Adaptec should be safe. You didn't say what controller you use (or what VGA adapter). This however is the critical information. Paul. (debra@research.att.com)
mars@ixos.UUCP (mars) (07/25/90)
Hi, i have exactly the same hardware but i run Esix. Esix had problems with the Gateway 2000 disk controller! It's a UltrStore and up till a few month ago the didn't run Esix. Now UltraStore has a new version of the controller software (which i have on my board) and everything runs fine. I had my Harddisk AND my controller exchanged by Gateway for free. Great service. I got a CDC Wren (which has a little less storage than the Micro- polis but is faster and more reliable etc) and the new controller with the upgraded software. You will need at least the new drive. Then you have to dis- able the cache and all the goodies on the controller and Unix should run. Better get the better controller. Gateway helped me very good, i can only recommend them. I talked to a supervisor there, his name is Rusty, he knows what's going on. You could also call UltraStore and ask for Andrew Leong, but he will direct you to Gateway... Good luck