From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun May 21 16:47:44 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA01541 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 21 May 1995 16:47:44 -0700 Received: from nwpeople.demon.co.uk (nwpeople.demon.co.uk [158.152.27.96]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA01535 for ; Sun, 21 May 1995 16:47:31 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 00:00:00 GMT From: iain@nwpeople.demon.co.uk (Iain Baird) Reply-To: iain@nwpeople.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <624@nwpeople.demon.co.uk> To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: 2.0-950412-SNAP install problem X-Mailer: PCElm 1.10 Lines: 72 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 error 54 (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 -- Iain Baird Network People International Tel: +44 (0)1732 743591