From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 08:24:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA21896 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 08:24:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from Post-Office.UH.EDU (Post-Office.UH.EDU [129.7.1.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA21887 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 08:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from peacock (Peacock.EGR.UH.EDU) by Post-Office.UH.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #8380) id <01I0W1F8HM2Q0006K6@Post-Office.UH.EDU> for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Feb 1996 10:24:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 10:24:33 -0600 (CST) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by Post-Office.UH.EDU From: melrobin@Jetson.UH.EDU (Melvin Deloyd Robinson) Subject: ReInstall woes X-Sender: melrobin@rosie.uh.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I0W1F8L3CK0006K6@Post-Office.UH.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello BSDers, This is a classic case of should have left well enough alone. I am a new FreeBSD user and installed it on my machine without a hitch the first time. While adding new hardware for my Windows 95 partition, I must have done something wrong because when rebooting off the FreeBSD partition I got some errors in the vm... modules and a memory fault error. After trying some more things, including changing the CMOS settings, I decided that the best strategy would be to delete the FreeBSD partition and reinstall the whole thing. Everything is going great during the reinstall until it tries to unpack some of the /bin files. I jump to the other screen (ALT-F2) to see what is going on. The computer is spitting out this error: wd0a: hard error reading fsbn 1036 of 1036-1039 (wd0 bn 1036; cn 0 tn 16 sn 28) wd0: status 61error It does this for the remaining bin.xx files that it tries to read from the CDROM. I do the natural thing and try to repeat the process paying closer attention to the errors. During the initial part of the install I briefly saw on the screen something about cpio trying to reinstall one of the rwd0xxx devices, but that there was a newer version or something like that. I'm not sure if this helps. Please advise me of how I should proceed. Do I need to change some BIOS settings? Do I need to return the HD? BTW, my configuration is: P100 Award Bios 4.50PG Western Digital A31200 1.2 GIG IDE CDROM 8M Thanks, Melvin