From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 1 10:44:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19140 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 10:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pike.cdrom.com (pike.cdrom.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18968 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 10:43:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from support@cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by pike.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA20566 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 10:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from support@cdrom.com) X-Received: from mercury.shreve.net (mercury.shreve.net [208.206.76.23]) by pike.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA16766 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 07:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wreyford@shreve.net) X-Received: from server1 (usr1-83.shreve.net [208.214.44.83]) by mercury.shreve.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA11867 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 09:57:21 -0500 From: "Jeff Wreyford" To: Subject: FreeBSD Installation Question Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:56:31 -0500 Message-ID: <000101bd7511$53d20ad0$140a0080@server1.Smartmart.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am attempting to install FreeBSD Ver. 2.2.6 april, 98, on an HP Vectra 486/33 machine w/8MB ram and a Quantum Prodrive LPS 270MB disk. I am following the installation example given in the book.txt file found on the cdrom. I am doing a NOVICE installation from CDROM using the entire hard drive with "Standard" boot. I have NO conflicting I/O in the customization screen just after boot. I am using the IDE controller as wd0, a mitsumi CDROM as wcd0c, 1 parallel, 2 serial and no mouse or network card. I am deleteing all of the other devices in the customization screen that are not necessary. Full Screen Configuration: Storage: dev IRQ port Floppy disk controller fdc0 6 0x3f0 Mitsumi CD-ROM mcd0 10 0x300 IDE/ESDI/MFM disk controller wdc0 14 0x1f0 Network: (none) Communications: Parallel printer port lpt0 7 8250/16450/16550 Serial Port sio0 4 0x3f8 8250/16450/16550 Serial Port sio1 3 0x2f8 Input: syscons console driver sc0 1 0x60 screen shows: -------------- avail memory = 4874240 (4760K bytes) probing for devices on the ISA bus sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: WARNING: video mode switching is only partially supported sc0: VGA color <4 virtual consoles, flags=0x0) sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16450 sio1 at 0x2f8-02ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16450 lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 258MB (528640 sectors), 944 cyls, 14 heads, 40 S/T, 512 B/S wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, intr, dma, iordis mcd0 not found at 0x300 npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard mpx0: INT 16 Interface rootfs is 1440 KByte compiled in MFS FDISK Partition Editor: ----------------------- Offset size end Name PType Desc Subtype FLags 0 40 39 - 6 unused 0 40 528600 528639 wd0s1 3 freebsd 165 CA Install a standard MBR FreeBSD Disk Label Editor ------------------------- part Mount Size Newfs wd0s1a / 32MB UFS Y wd0s1b swap 25MB SWAP wd0s1e /var 30MB UFS Y wd0s1f /usr 170MB UFS Y Choose Minimal Installation from CDROM The system hangs when the kernel attempts to create the root filesystem (Blue screen w/grey text box) Text in Grey Box: Making a new froot filesystem on /dev/rwd0s1a the Alt-F2 screen shows the following: DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success) DEBUG: Found a network device named lp0 DEBUG: Found a CDROM device for /dev/wcd0c DEBUG: Found a floppy device for /dev/fd0 DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa0 to sl0 DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa0 to ppp0 DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa1 to sl0 DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa1 to ppp0 DEBUG: Found a disk device named wd0 DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for swap partitions DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for swap partitions /dev/rwd0s1a: 65536 sectors in 16 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors Any ideas what i'm doing wrong?? where did device rwd0s1a come from?? it wasn't listed anywhere during the install. I have tried the installation with and without a network card (NE2000 addr. 300 IRQ 15) and with and without the microsoft bus mouse with no luck. I have also tried a different hard drive and installing from a DOS Partition. and I also exhaustedly RTFM HELP! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Jeff Wreyford wreyford@shreve.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message