From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 4: 0: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from techpower.net (techpower.net [205.133.231.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A704F37C09A for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 04:00:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Received: from localhost (hometeam@localhost) by techpower.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA01799; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:06:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hometeam@techpower.net) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:06:18 -0500 (EST) From: hometeam To: Dennis Jun Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re:B 4.0 installations problems; making a new filesystem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I get the same on a maxtor 6 gig I tryed last nite to install on.. everything was fresh install ... And multiport support I tryed the day before on another system it gives a syntax error in the config file ,kernel still configures ok..This config worked fine in 3.4 stable. I know this didn't answer the question Just letting everyone know my test on to system. I did have backups in both cases... On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Dennis Jun wrote: > Hello all! Like many of you, I'm trying to install 4.0-RELEASE. However, > I'm getting some strange errors, which I'm not certain are indicative of > 4.0 or something else I have misconfigured in my CMOS. Oh, please bare > with me if this an obvious error, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. > > partition (ad0s2). Now, when it begins to start the install and creating a > new filesystem, I get the following errors: > > ad0s1: raw partition size != slice size > ad0s1: start 63, end 6136829, size 6136767 > ad0s1c: start 63, end 96389, size 96327 > (these 3 lines repeat several times) > DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem > DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions > Warning: 1978 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated > /dev/rad0s1a: 96326 sectors in 24 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 47.0MB in 2 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 5888 i/g) > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting > ata0: resetting devices .. done > (and that repeats until I stop it with a control-c) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message