Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 22:29:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: PCAKen@aol.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failed installation problems... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960802222608.535F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <960802150517_590983154@emout10.mail.aol.com>
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On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 PCAKen@aol.com wrote: > Hi there ! > I am in trouble, and in need of some technical help. I have just purchased a > P-166 system with 32 megs RAM, 4 gig Seagate Barracuda Hard drive, an NEC 6X > CD-ROM (:502) , an Adaptec 2940W controller card, Wang DAT backup > tape,Warning : Message rejected by targer and a 3COM Etherlink III network > card. What? Where did that Warning come from? :) > I partitioned the hard drive to use the full disk for FreeBSD, and then went > on thru with the complete installation of the O/S. Everything looked good > with the install, but when I re-booted the system, all I get is the "F?" . Classic geometry problem. Blow away the slice, put a small DOS slice on the disk, and in install, delete that slice and proceed as before. > I managed to make a boot floppy using another machine, and cam get the > system to boot with that and it automatically goes back into the install > mode. The trouble is, I can't get the system to recognize the CD-ROM. > When the system boots, the script on the screen finds all of the > hardware on the system, but I get the message "Warning : Message > rejected by target: 0x1". This message comes up after it tries to > initialize the Wang DAT and the hard drive. The DAT doesn't like to be probed. :( Hm, we'll have to investigate that one later. Does it come up with the mfr and model during that probe? Can you post the output of the SCSI probe? > The *REAL* trouble is that I can not access my CD-ROM. The CDROM is connected > to the ADAPTEC 2940W controller card, and it's ID # is 6. When I am booting > the system, After the CDROM comes up on the screen, I get a long delay, then > I get the message: > > (ahcd0:6:0) > cdrom can't get the size > TFS is 1000KByte compiled in MFS > > And then the install screen appears. When I try to load the software from the > CDROM while in the install mode, it tells me that there is no CDROM connected > to the system. > I have tried installing a minimal setup from floppies, but this always fails > too... You didn't put the CD in the drive before booting. sysinstall is too stupid at this point to know if you have a CD and are using it, so the CD must be in the drive before the SCSI probe. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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