sadler@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil (04/23/91)
Okay, I give up. I am having an awful time trying to reinstall SCO XENIX
ver. 2.3.1 on a Priam ID100-RC RLL hard disk drive. It's a 386 based 20 MHz
system I inherited, and I decided to increase the swap space. Bad Idea.
I can get all the way through the install process to the point of making the
filesystems and entering the activation codes, but I invariably get the error
message below when trying to boot from the hard disk to finish the process:
not a directory
/boot not found
Stage 1 boot failure: error loading /boot
Does anybody know what's wrong? Aside from the small swap space, the system
worked fine before I started my "improvements", so it's not a basic
compatibility problem (though XENIX is not fooled by Priam's cylinder/head
remapping like MS-DOS is. I have to give the disk's true characteristics to
XENIX, i.e. 1156 cylinders/7 heads and _not_ 581 cylinders/14 heads, or the
bad tracking gets really screwed up. If you have a Priam disk you know what
I mean.) I suspected hardware trouble but I can get MS-DOS (bleck! :^) to
work fine. Unfortunately, the hard disk manufacturer seems to have bitten
the dust.
What hand-waving is required here (aside from getting another hard disk)?
Anybody with the proper formula? Please respond by e-mail.
Thanks,
Joe Sadler "All statements and opinions
sadler@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil expressed above are my own...
in my opinion."