From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 17:17:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glitch.crosswinds.net (glitch.crosswinds.net [209.208.163.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548B737B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:17:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from lexx.my.domain ([195.110.170.87]) by glitch.crosswinds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA92044; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 20:17:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john253@crosswinds.net) From: John Murphy To: emcgough@bbnow.net (Edward McGough) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Failure Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 01:17:55 +0000 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: john253@crosswinds.net Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Edward McGough wrote: >Here is what I know so far: > >1) I go through the install and select everything correctly, with a = minimal >install for a user. > >2) It gets to the part where it copies the files from the CD to the = system >and fails at the end > >3) The error message it gives is: MAKEDEV Returned non-zero status. > >4) While checking the other terminal (i put it in debug) here are some = the >last couple of lines up to the error: > >Debug: Notify: Remaking all devices...Please Wait >Debug: Executing command 'cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV all' >MAKEDEV: 762: Syntax Error: ")" unexpected (expecting ";;") >Debug: Command 'cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV all' returns status of 2 > I have 4.1 working fine. My /dev/MAKEDEV has these 3 lines for 761-763: *) echo bad unit for media changer in: $i ;; Whenever I've had syntax errors of this kind it has been due to the file (MAKEDEV in your case) having ^Ms on the end of lines caused by me = editing the file in MSwindows and forgetting to save it in UNIX format... >5) When i acknowledge that the system had error and set the root = password >and time zone (which i have to do manually) and reboot the system i am >getting the following error: > >Mounting root from UFS: /dev/ad0s1a >panic: allocbuf: buffer too small As MAKEDEV has stopped prematurely I'm not surprised. >Then the system tries to sync the disks and ends up with a fatal trap = error. > >Does anyone have any idea what is going on. I am assuming that the = install >is failing when trying to make devices from the /dev directory, but, = what >can I do about that or am I even going down the right road. > >The system has an unknown motherboard (TX Pro chipset). It has one IDE = hard >disk in it with an SMC Nic card, (which works cause I installed via FTP = from >my bsd box). Other than a floppy that is it. > >If anyone can help me out please do so as I am stumped. Well, as you're installing it on a friends pc I presume you have a working system of your own. Therefore you could put his/her drive in your pc and do a minimal install there, and then swap the drive back to his. Even though your hardware may be quite different, it will (probably) work! HTH John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message