Re: Booting into testsh does work

>I tried to boot into testsh again this morning and surprise:
>It worked!!
>I haven't done anything to the system after my first tries so I don't know
>what went wrong in the first place.
>But now I get the prompt and can use the commands.
>So please guide me further into getting my harddrive to work.

Well, congratulations on running VSTa on your PC. Without any filesystem,
I'm sure your enthusiasm is tempered by the fact that you can't DO
anything! :-)

Next steps (don't type the remarks on the right!):

% mount 1 /namer (1 is the well-known-port for namer)
% cd /namer (now in the namer "filesystem")
% ls
disk
% cd disk
% ls (now in the place where disks register)
wd
% cat wd (a "file" maps a name to a port)
1026% mount 1026 /wd (mount the indicated port)
% cd /wd
% ls (now in the wd "filesystem")
wd0
wd0_dos0
wd0_p1
% sec wd0 0
...[hex dump of sector 0 of wd0]
% sec wd0 1
...[sector 1]. You should see a disk label here
% sec wd0_dos0 0
...[sector 0 of the DOS partition. You should see MSDOSX.X here]

Let me know if:
        - There's no disk/wd entry in the namer
        - There's no wd0_dos0 subdir in the wd driver
        - Your I/O's fail
        - Your sectors don't look right

                                Regards...
                                Andy Valencia
Received on Fri Aug 27 10:39:04 1993