Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 00:00:00 GMT From: iain@nwpeople.demon.co.uk (Iain Baird) To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2.0-950412-SNAP install problem Message-ID: <624@nwpeople.demon.co.uk>
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Hi,
I have encountered a problem trying to install 2.0-950412-SNAP.
Hardware:
Gateway 4DX2-66P
Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM (PCI)
Oak EIDE Controller (PCI)
WD Caviare 540MB IDE disk (1048 cyls)
Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller
Seagate ST31250 SCSI disk
(all other cards removed)
The IDE disk (wd0) has DOS and FreeBSD 1.1 slices. The FreeBSD 1.1
slice starts below cylinder 1024. BIOS LBA translation is disabled;
I lied to the BIOS and told it the disk has 1024 cylinders.
I am attempting to install FreeBSD 2.0 on the entire SCSI disk (sd0).
I have reached the point where I can boot from the hard disk (sd0, using
hd(1,a)/kernel at boot prompt). The kernel boots successfully, and finds
all expected devices, but the message
wd0: can't handle 32 heads from partition table...
appears.
All the filesystems on sd0 are fsck'd without error.
I then attempt to load the distributions from the DOS slice on wd0. I
specify /dev/wd0e as the device to mount, it seems to mount successfully.
I specify the path from mount point as freebsd/950412.snp, but then I get
an error message saying it can't cd to that directory.
At this point I exit from the installation utility to a shell. 'mount'
shows /dev/wd0e mounted on /mnt. 'ls /mnt' shows the contents of the
DOS root directory. 'ls /mnt/thing', where thing is an existing DOS
directory, produces either garbage (but garbage formatted like a ls
listing), or an error message such as the following:
wd0e: hard error reading fsbn 296033 of 296033-296040 (wd0 bn 296096;
cn 146 tn 27 sn 59): status 51<seekdone,err> error 54<uncorr,no_id,
abort>
(repeated twice)
When I try to 'umount /mnt', the system hangs.
After all this I boot DOS, run scandisk, and it reports no errors.
I boot FreeBSD 1.1 (from wd0), and it successfully mounts and reads
the DOS filesystem.
I have been through the above cycle several times with the same results
each time. I have tried a BT-946C in place of the AHA-2940, with no
improvement.
Basically I'm stumped. Any suggestions? I'll be happy to attempt more
detailed diagnostics if you can point me in the right direction.
I've been using FreeBSD 1.1 daily for over a year, and it has proved
extremely robust. I have installed 2.0-950412-SNAP on an HP Vectra
486/66VL (on the second IDE disk), and on a Gateway 4DX2-66V (on slice
of IDE disk), and I'm impressed. Thank you all and keep up the good work!
iain
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Iain Baird Network People International
Tel: +44 (0)1732 743591
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