Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!oucsace!oucs!wright!cnee
From: cnee@wright.EDU (Cheng-Lee Nee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Help: Hard disk initialization and XENIX
Message-ID: <313@thor.wright.EDU>
Date: 2 Oct 88 00:28:18 GMT
References: <728@auvax.UUCP>
Organization: Wright State University, Dayton OH, 45435
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in article <728@auvax.UUCP>, louis@auvax.UUCP (Louis Schmittroth) says:
> 
> In article <299@thor.wright.EDU>, cnee@wright.EDU (Cheng-Lee Nee) writes:
> # the menu for modifying disk parameters disappear forever!
> 
> Holy Toledo, I find myself in the same spot, only with a Priam
> ID-45-D2, and a Tele-386 with it's own controller.  I can format the
> drive with the Priam utilities, and I can partition it for DOS using
> the Priam software, but when I try to bring up Xenix from the N1
> diskette, I get to where I should have the menu for modifying
> drive parameters, and nothing comes up, although the cursor is
> responding to the keyboard.  I don't have a working Xenix to use
> either.  What's going on here?
> 
After several days working on this, I finally got the XENIX installed.
It can boot from the hard disk now. How do I made it? Well, the disk 
parameters menu is still not comming up (I think something were wrote 
back to the N1 or N2), but I use the Norton Utility to modify the hard 
disk parameter table on the first sector of the hard disk right after
installed the Basic System Utilities (B1 - B3). Of course, at first, 
I did the low-level formating according to the spec. of my disk and 
copy down the correct disk parameter table. So, after the XENIX changes 
the table according to the parameters in ROM. I just change it back and 
it works!

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