Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:07:10 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: jeff@stat.uconn.edu, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD from DOS partition Message-ID: <199601310507.HAA02676@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199601302207.XAA15755@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 30, 96 11:07:47 pm
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On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > > > > An important fact is that I am able to install a WORKING version of the > > the minimal distribution of FreeBSD on my machine from floppy. It's > > an annoying 14 disk installation, but it works. I mount my DOS partition > > at /dos. When I go to read my files from DOS, I have the problem that > > the files appear in a directory, but they are somehow corrupt. Trying > > to read them using vi, it seems that a good portion of my system becomes > > corrupt. ... > > It seems that you've got serious disk troubles. Either you've got > serious memory problems, and since parity chips on the SIMMs have been > eliminated these days, you don't get the usual parity error warnings > for this. Try making the memory timing more benign and see if this > would help. > > But i'd rather suspect the IDE controller. Try replacing it by > another one temporarily. Any dumb IDE adaptor should do, FreeBSD > doesn't use any nifty EIDE extensions anyway. I also thought this might be hardware, but the problems he describes are those a number of other users have reported when accessing the MS-DOS partition from FreeBSD. (I'm in the process of revising the msdosfs code, which was why I was particularly interested.) Elsewhere he writes: > ...... When I stay entirely in BSD, I am fine. I can boot the machine > (the boot manager gives me the option between Windows 95 and BSD and it > works properly), I can log in as root. I can create users. They can > create files in their directories. It all basically works. I think this is a msdosfs problem. He can run MS-DOS/Windows; he can run FreeBSD; he can access MS-DOS floppy disks during installation. It all falls apart only when the MS-DOS partition is involved. For some configurations, the current msdosfs just doesn't work at all. :-( Regards -- Robert Nordier
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