Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:40:29 +0200 From: "Jethro Borsje" <jborsje@xs4all.nl> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: installing BSD Message-ID: <00f001c22b44$68fdcff0$0100a8c0@jethro> References: <00db01c22b3d$41545340$0100a8c0@jethro> <20020714140307.GA26599@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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>> When I tried to install FreeBSD, I got the following error: >> *Unable to make new root filesystem >> Command returned status 36*. >> >> When I pressed *OK*, I got the following: >> *Douldn't make filesystems properly, aborting*. > > That's quite likely to be a hardware issue --- either a dying disk or > an IDE controller that is not properly supported. > thank you for your quick reply. I hope it's a problem which can be solved. >> What can I do about this? > > If you hit Alt-F2 when you get the 'status 36' mesage, there should be > some more informative error messages visible. That should tell us > exactly what's happening. > DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 94. /dev/ad0s1a: 262144 sectors in 64 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors 128.0MB in 1 cyl groups (94 c/g, 188.00MB/g, 16256 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: ad0s1a: hard error writing fsbn 822 of 376-383 (ad0s1 bn 822; cn 0 tn 13 sn 3) status=51 error=10 write error: 128 newfs: wtfs - writecombine: Input/output error This is the part where everything goes wrong and also the end of the Alf-F2 error message. I hope you can help me out. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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