From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 17:19:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA13816 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from oregon.uoregon.edu (oregon.uoregon.edu [128.223.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA13800 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:19:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from simba.uoregon.edu by OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #13764) id <01I1ZK2QFQ288ZGI02@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Mar 1996 17:19:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 17:16:25 -0900 From: Mike Claussen Subject: install problems To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <313CF579.2EF8@darkwing.uoregon.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on an AST 386C (DX-20) with a WD1007V-SE2 ESDI controller attached to a Miniscribe 3180E and MicroScience FH-2777 drives and an Intel EtherExpress card. My problem occurs (i think) when the partition information is written to the drive. I'm getting the following errors: "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rwd0a Command returned status 36" "Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting" At which point I'm returned to the menu. Do I need to do anything special to make the ESDI drives work? What does status 36 mean? /\/\ike