From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 17:00:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA14221 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:00:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from intele.net (quervo.intele.net [206.29.206.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA14216 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from logan3.n1.net (logan3.n1.net [207.49.6.53]) by intele.net (8.7.4/8.6.5) with SMTP id SAA07400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 18:02:00 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 18:02:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19960714180133.250f5dd4@intele.net> X-Sender: brendtb@intele.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Brendt T. Bennett" Subject: Please help: install problem-> 2.1.0-R Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Since my ISP is going through a radical change, would you please send an immediate response even if it does not include any possible solutions. This will just let me know if you received my message. Thanx. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I guess every now and then we computer nuts need to be reminded that we cannot solve all problems by ourselves. It is now my turn (Again!). For Father's Day this year, I got (to order for myself) the FreeBSD CDROM. I decided on the 2.1.0-RELEASE for reasons I cannot remember. I read the manual and did all the homework I could before installing the operating system, but alas I am still having problems. I called Walnut Creek CDROM technical support and they recomended I post the problems to USENET and send them the same info. So here I go. The plan: I have two EIDE Hard disks; one Maxtor 1.6GB, one Maxtor 540MB. I want to use the first (larger) to remain dedicated to DOS and Windows. The second (smaller) hard disk will be dedicated to FreeBSD. I want a XWindow system, one that I can try writing BSD drivers and try some X programming. The problem: After reading the book that came with the CDs (twice), I was not surprised when I could not load FreeBSD directly from my ATAPI 4X Creative CDROM drive. (I also tried the _atapi.flp_ created with the VIEW program.) I figured the best way would be to copy the files and directories needed to my large DOS disk and install from there. Even after the copying, I still had plenty of space on the DOS hard disk. I then booted with the _boot.flp_ (also created with VIEW). Things went fine until soon after the screen that asks if you are CERTAIN you want to load the system. I then got an error message that said: Failed to load the ROOT distribution. Please correct this problem and try again. After trying the same NOVICE installation method several times with the same results (I did try reloading the source files and change some of the directory structure on the DOS disk first) I tried the CUSTOM installation. I ran into problems with the EXTRACT directive. Almost all the transfers gave an error message that had: Write failure on transfer... >From the way things looked, all the sources were being read correctly, there seemed to be problems writing to the second disk. Finally I tried putting a small DOS partition at the beginning of the disk, as was recomended. I still got the same results. My system: Motherboard: Intel P54C/PCI (Plato), Neptune chip set, AMI BIOS; Current BIOS installed: 1.00.06.1AX CPU: Intel Pentium 90MHz Memory: 24MB 60ns w/ parity Video: Number Nine GXE64 Pro, 2MB VRAM Monitor: Nokia Multigraph 447X 1st OS: Novell DOS 7 & MS Windows 3.1 Floppy: 1.44MB (A:), 1.2MB (B:); using motherboard controller 1st HD: Maxtor 71626 AP; 1.6GB EIDE Jumpered as master device; using motherboard controller attached to PCI bus. 2nd HD: Maxtor 7546 AT; 540MB EIDE Jumpered as slave device; using motherboard controller attached to PCI bus. CDROM: Creative 4X IDE (model CRE-JTB?), Jumpered as slave device; using motherboard controller attached to ISA bus. Since I think disk geometry is the issue here, I list the following: BIOS has the following settings (hard disks are auto detected): Cyln Head Sect Size Drive C: 3158 16 63 1554 MB Drive D: 1060 16 63 522 MB IDE Translation Mode: LBA However, FDISK gives the following parameters: Partitions on 1st hard disk (1551.3 Mb, 788 cylinders): No Drive Start End MB Status Type 1 C: 0 787 1551.3 A PRI DOS Partitions on 2nd hard disk (520.7 Mb, 529 cylinders): (No partitions defined yet.) I know this has been a long post, I wanted to try to give all the hardware information I could and an accurate discription of my problem. I might have gone overboard, but I think it is better than a skimpy report. I am also going to give the full list of what FreeBSD comes up with when probing my system. If anyone has any ideas I am certainly willing try them. Thanks for your time. Brendt T. Bennett PS. My internet service provider is going through a change. If you email me at brendtb@n1.net and the message bounces, try brendtb@intele.net. If you still cannot reach me, use my wife's school account slrbd@cc.usu.edu. Below is a what apears on my screen after a system reset. I was booting from FreeBSD _boot.flp_: AMIBIOS (c) 1992 American Megatrends Inc., BIOS Version 1.00.06.AX1 024576 KB Please Wait... Keyboard.....Detected Mouse........Not Detected Hard Disk C: Installed Maxtor 71626 AP Hard Disk D: Installed Mastor 7546 AT >>FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 639/23552 k of memory Use hd(1,a)/kernel to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed. Usage: [[fd(0,a)]/kernel][-abcCdhrsv] Use ? for file list or press Enter for defaults Boot: Booting fd(0,a)/kernel @ 0x20c000 text=0xfc000 / text=0xfc000 data=0x0 bss=0xa00 symbols=[+0x600+0x4+0x27c+0x4+0x1fb] total=0x30947f entry point=0x20c000 Uncompressing kernel...done Booting the kernel BIOS basemem (639K) != basemem (640K) Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. 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FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 18 10:21:19 1995 jkh@westhill.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS CPU: 90-MHz Pentium 735\90 (Pentium-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x521 Stepping=1 Features=0x1bf real memory = 25165824 (24576K bytes) avail memory = 21540864 (21036K bytes) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> edo not found at 0x280 ed1 not found at 0x300 sio0 at 0x3f8-3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16650A sio1 at 0x2f8-2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16650A sio2 not found at 0x3e8 sio3 not found at 0x2e8 lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lpt0: TCP/IP capable interface lpt1 not found at 0xffffffff lpt2 not found at 0xffffffff mse0: wrong signature ff mse0 not found at 0x23c fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: NEC 72065B fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in fd1: 1.2MB 5.25in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 1554MB (3183264 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): wd0: 521MB (1068480 sectors), 1060 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1 not found at 0x170 bt0 not found at 0x330 uha0 not found at 0x330 ahc1 not found ahb0 not found aha0 not found at 0x330 aic0 not found at 0x340 nca0 not found at 0x1f88 nca1 not found at 0x350 sea0 not found wt0 not found at 0x300 mcd0: timeout getting status mcd0 not found at 0x300 mcd1: timeout getting status mcd1 not found at 0x340 matcdc0 not found at 0x230 scd0 not found at 0x230 ie0 not found at 0x360 ep0 not found at 0x300 ix0 not found at 0x300 le0: noboard found at 0x300 le0 not found at 0x300 lnc0 not found at 0x280 lnc1 not found at 0x300 ze0 not found at 0x300 zp0 not found at 0x300 npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface Probing for devices on the PCI bus: chip0 rev 17 on pci0:0 chip1 rev 3 on pci0:2 vga0 rev 0 on pci0:6 rootfs is 1000 Kbyte compiled in MFS /stand/sysinstall running as init