From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 09:41:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01378 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from biodec.wustl.edu (biodec.wustl.edu [128.252.128.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA01364 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by biodec.wustl.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA10314; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:41:36 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 11:39:52 CST From: "Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D." Message-Id: <54904.barnes@biodec.wustl.edu> X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_18A Reply-To: X-Popmail-Charset: English To: questions@FreeBSD.org, JBarnes@CCO.caltech.edu Subject: travails Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear FreeBSDers, System: Dell Dimension P100t (pentium 100) 8 + 32 = 40 Meg RAM EIDE controller 1.6 Gig WD drive jumpered as master. 4X NEC IDE CD Rom jumpered as slave. BootEasy boot manager is working. 400 MB DOS 6.22 partition ~447 MB FreeBSD partition 32 MB root / 32 MB swap 58 MB /spare 30 MB /var ~297 MB /usr rest of drive is extended DOS partition, D: and E: CD rom drive works fine as dos drive F: BIG PROBLEM -- Can someone at least tell me whether this is hardware or software, and which piece is broken? Boot: Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 Error: C:0 H:0 S:0 ... endlessly repeating I was able to seemingly install FreeBSD over FTP, after booting unix from the View program and Install.bat on the F: CD rom. Thus, I was running unix on my system for quite awhile. In fact, I was running (and booting) FreeBSD on this computer for a few weeks, when I decided I needed a larger FreeBSD partition. This first installation of FreeBSD installed with a boot floppy and FTP. It was before I rejumpered my drives, and it never could see my CD. The above error occurs before and after rejumpering. Actually, if I could have figured out how to mount another (extended? secondary?) partition on my drive, I would have done that without re-installing FreeBSD. However, I did decide to re-install in a larger partition, and since then I get the above error. Too bad -- I was even running Xwindows very well. However, when I boot from my apparently successful (that is, no errors while it was happening) re-installation via FTP, the above error happens. This error also occurs if I boot from a boot.flp floppy, which floppy works fine on my Gateway2000 at home, so the floppy is not broken. I remade the floppy several times, no help. I am almost, but not quite able to install from the CDrom. It boots OK, and I go through the installation screens ok, but when it is actually copying over the bin system, it s l o w s d o w n at about chunk 20, getting slower and slower, and finally making write errors and the installation fails. This happened twice. This did not happen with the FTP install. About the only thing I haven't tried is to take out some of my memory. I had 8 MB for the first installation. Then I put in 32 MB more. This did not hurt anything for running the first installation. I mention this only for completeness, not thinking it is a real possibility. Thank you for any support you can give. Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D. fax: 314/362-7183 or 362-3350 Dept. Biochemistry 8231, Washington Univ. Med.School 4566 Scott Avenue Barnes@biodec.wustl.edu http://mbb.wustl.edu/~barnes/ St. Louis, Missouri 63110 USA ph: 314/362-3351