Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 15:27:20 -0400 From: media@ct1.nai.net To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: install from 4.1 CDROM failed Message-ID: <v03130301b5fba6258620@[209.150.34.18]> In-Reply-To: <NCBBIPDEFKONHLOLAMEOEEDJCDAA.emag2@emag1.com>
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I have a 133 Pentium (Compaq Deskpro 4000) on which I had previously installed 3.4 from CD-ROM. My CR-ROM drive is a Creative 5230E. I don't have a SCSI card. I just received _The FreeBSD Handbook_ from Walnut Creek which came with the 4.1 CD-ROM (I thought it was going to contain other software that went with the Handbook when I ordered it). Anyway, since didn't have too many files of my own in my FreeBSD partition, needed the newer version of XFree86 to work with my video card, and 4.1 is regarded as an improvement over 3.4, I decided to install it. It failed and gave the following: All filesystem information written successfully. Creating emergency holographic shell on VTY4. anic: lockmgr: non-zero exclusive count Syncing disks . . . panic: lockmgr: non-zero exclusive count Uptime 10m18s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds -- press any key on the console to abort. I tried it twice again. I tried different install options. I tried changing the sizes of my slices. I got the same message. I have checked the Release Notes, Errata, _The FreeBSD Hanbook_, and _The Complete FreeBSD_ (Third Edition). I did not find a reference to this problem. If you have a rtfm reply to this, please be very specific. Any ideas what might be wrong?? Could it be a bad CD-ROM?? It is dated AUGUST 2000, and says "DOC-24927-1 BSD4.1.1 / WALNUT CREEK CDROM" along the inscript. I thought perhaps the existing FreeBSD data from my 3.4 install might be causing the problem. I figured the FreeBSD installer would erase everything when it created new slices, but just to be sure, I booted in MS-DOS, removed the FreeBSD partition with fdisk, created a new Extended DOS partition from with all the space available outside my Primary DOS partition, rebooted, reformatted it as DOS, then removed it again. That should have erased everything. I tried it again. It failed. I got the same message. The 4.1 installer seems a bit different from the 3.4. Where did the bad block scan go?? The flag is described on the help page (F1), but the command is not listed. In one of my four attempts, the Disklabel Editor acted odd. It said my 1047MB "/usr" was too big and wouldn't let me set it, then it let me set it to the same amount after I deleted "/" and "swap" and added "/usr" first. Also prompting for Newfs options didn't work. That seems oddly inconsistent. My gut feeling is that the FreeBSD partition isn't being formatted properly. I remember the 3.4 taking quite a bit of time to format, which I don't see the 4.1 installer doing. THANX!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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