Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:26:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: barnaby.ng@canrem.com (Barnaby Ng) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fatal code=5888 Message-ID: <199502171926.LAA28502@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <60.9779.104.0C1D0781@canrem.com> from "Barnaby Ng" at Feb 16, 95 11:53:00 pm
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> > Help, I got a fatal error while trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 from > the Walnut Creek CD. Hardware:- > - Intel 486DX2-66 > - Gigabyte m/b with SIS chipset, Award BIOS > - 256K cache, 16MB ram > - ATI Mach 64 VL with 2MB VRAM > - Adaptec 2842VL (> 1GB bios translation enabled) You must tell FreeBSD's fdisk program that you are using 255/63 translation. Otherwise, it will not place the partitions in the right place. Read the manual that came with your adaptec about what extended translation is, and you will understand. > The installation program let me partition and assign my drives, but > when I proceed, it gives me the following message:- > > Fatal > Exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code=5888 > > The debug screen shows:- > Progress <newfs /dev/rsd0a> > /dev/rsd0a: 61440 sectors in 30 cylinders of 64 tracks, 32 sectors should be 255/63 > 30.0 MB in 2 cyl groups (16 c/g, 16.00MB/g, 3840 i/g) > Super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 32, 32832, > Progress <Newfs/dev/rsd1f> > With a block size of 32768 minimum bytes per inode is 5990 > Minimum bytes per inode is 5990 > With 16065 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinder per group is 64 > This requires the block size to be changed from 8192 to 32768 and > the fragment size to be changed from 1024 to 4096 > > > I enabled the >1GB extended bios translation according to advice > from Adaptec. If this is causing the problem, I've to low-level > format my drives :-(. I can boot to OS/2 again so there is no damage > so far, but I want FreeBSD on my system. Any suggestion? > Tell FreeBSD's fdisk program what the translation is, and it will be happy. > > % Barnaby Ng > % Toronto, Canada > % barnaby.ng@canrem.com > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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