Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 18:32:12 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: lihsin@astro.phys.clemson.edu (Lih-Sin The) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help on freebsd installation Message-ID: <199602110802.SAA27690@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9602102118.AA24228@astro.phys.clemson.edu> from "Lih-Sin The" at Feb 10, 96 04:18:51 pm
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(lots and lots of details; this is an excellent bugreport!) Lih-Sin The stands accused of saying: > I have tried many times to install FreeBSD 2.1 from Walnut Creek CDROM > January 1996 to our 486dx2 PC with 8MBRAM, Adaptec 1540CF scsi controller, You have a busmastering SCSI controller; it's possible that your motherboard or CPU doesn't work properly with it. Try turning off all caching in your BIOS (CPU internal cache and motherboard cache) and see if you get the same crash. Your install procedure looks fine. > making a new file system on /dev/rsd0a > copying initial device files > doing newfs -b 8192 -f 2048 -u 2633 /mnt/dev/rsd0s3f > doing newfs -b 8192 -f 2048 -u 4096 /mnt/dev/rsd0s3e > copying the boot floppy to /stand on root filesystem ... this all shows that the SCSI disk works OK and no major problems ... > Loading root iamge from: cd0a > Extracting bin into / directory .... > up to about 19% I presume it's not always exactly 19% ? > This happens many times, and i have not had any success yet. Try with caches disabled and let us know how you go. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[
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