Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 22:35:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announcing FreeBSD 2.0.5 ALPHA! Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.950530221809.12219A-100000@alpha.dsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505300844.BAA08337@freefall.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 30 May 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of FreeBSD 2.0.5-ALPHA! And the people said, "Hooray!" > ... > NOTE: If you're installing directly from ftp you can simply grab the > boot.flp image from the floppies directory... It's an awesome installation process! However, I have tried installing it on a PC with an older 300MB ESDI drive that has several bad sectors; initially, I tried to just un-tar the distribution over my old 2.0-950412-SNAP filesystem (which had been installed over an old 1.1 installation), but the 2.0.5-ALPHA kernel complained that it couldn't mount the root partition because of a bad bad144 table. So, I did a complete install from scratch, set the "check for bad sectors" flag when I re-created the FreeBSD partition on the drive, and watched it work over the disk for about 3 hours (it found and added eight bad spots to the bad144 table). Then, the installation procedure hung after it installed the compat1x dist :-( To make a long story longer, I completed the configuration by hand (the handy shell on ttyv4 is great!), copied /kernel.GENERIC to /kernel, and tried to boot the system. Alas, the copied kernel wouldn't boot because of a read error on a particular sector; I booted with kernel.GENERIC, tried to cat /kernel to /dev/null, and it bombed with a read error on a block that was in the bad144 table (I double-checked the table, and the bad block was there...). If there isn't an obvious solution to the problem, I'll probably just wait 'till I can swap a SCSI or IDE drive for the ESDI. I don't have time to do much more debugging on the problem (I have to head to a couple of conferences, one of which where I've been invited to do a presentation on FreeBSD!), but I can boot the system and get the particulars on the layout of the slices and maybe get the location of the bad144 table if need be... > Jordan Thanks again for a great system and all the work that has been done, Guy Helmer Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu
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