Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 17:53:06 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: moonhunt@easy.RE.KR (HyunSeog Ryu) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problem Message-ID: <199511160153.RAA00385@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199511160116.KAA00685@ns.easy.re.kr> from "HyunSeog Ryu" at Nov 16, 95 10:16:01 am
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> > Hi, everyone, > > When I was installed FreeBSD 2.1.0-951104-SNAP to my system, > I got error message with boot.flp. > > My machine information : > CPU : 486-DX4/100 > RAM : 64M > HDD : SEAGATE ST32430N (SCSI ID 0) > SEAGATE ST15230N (SCSI ID 1) > AHA1542CF > LAN : 3COM 3C509 Combo > > I know, SEAGATE HDD's geometry infomation is below. > > Cyl Head Sector RPM Capacity > ST32430N 2605 19 82 5411 2.14GB > ST15230N 3974 19 111 5411 4.294GB > > But boot.flp's Partition menu reports different geometry information. > So I put correct geometry information by "g" command. > And I do installation procedure by commit. you must NOT use this geometry.. you MUST be compatible with BIOS PRETEND geometry. the BIOS pretend geometry is: 64 heads 32 sectors/track 1023 cylinders <--this number does not matter just make it 1023 for now.. > > It has reported warning message as below. > > Warning! Unable to swap to /dev/sd0s1b: Device not cpnfigured > This may cause the installation to fail at some point > if you don't have a lot of memory. > > And procedure go on, it report error message as below. > I don't know this.. > Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rsd0a! > Command returned status 1 > > Boot.flp detect sd0 and sd1 correctly when it is begin(Alt-F2 debugging screen). > > I was labeled all partition as below. > > / : 128M > swap : 128M > /var : 64M > /usr : 512M > /news : 1 GB > /home : 128M > /home/ftp : 4 GB > > Why this situation occurs??? > When I just follow as boot.flp's reported geometry, > it's result is same... > I got boot.flp from ftp://ftp.waseda.ac.jp/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-951104-SNAP/floppies/boot.flp. > > Is this hardware problem or boot.flp's problem??? ;< > Please help me this situation... ;< > Thank you for your reading... > > > -- > Name : Hyunseog Ryu(moonhunt@easy.re.kr) http://www.easy.re.kr/~moonhunt > Tel : +82-2-884-0174 Fax : +82-2-884-0175 > EASY Research Institute, 304-25,Shinrim 10-dong Kwanak-gu,Seoul,151-020,Korea > For the better tommorow, for the better world!!! Cheers~~~~ ;> >
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