Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:48:53 +0800 From: gwzhao@multiwave.com.sg (Gorton Zhao Guo Wei) To: "'Phil Jenvey'" <support@cdrom.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Problems on installing Free BSD 2.2.6 Message-ID: <01BD9E8C.22E2F070@GWZHAO>
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Yes, I have two IDE hard-disks. One is connected to 1st IDE interface and another is connected to 2nd IDE. The 2nd IDE is connected to a IDE CD-ROM as well. When I installed Free BSD, I disabled the 1st IDE interface from the BIOS, and left the 2nd IDE interface alone to the computer. The hard-disk settings, which is related to 1st IDE interface, were set to none or disable. I used this method to install Linux, QNX and all Microsoft stuffs as well. None of them failed. The rock-reliable Free BSD should not fail too. BTW, I tried wd(1,a)kernel, but the result is same. I may try to remove my 1st hard-disk to see how. I thank you for your helps. Regards, Gorton -----Original Message----- From: Phil Jenvey [SMTP:support@cdrom.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 2:22 AM To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei Subject: RE: Problems on installing Free BSD 2.2.6 Are there any type of device conflicts on your system? FreeBSD cannot access your root partition for some reason. Are there any other hard drives in this machine? If you're running FreeBSD on your second hard drive, wd2, try using argument at the boot prompt: wd(1,a)kernel On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Gorton Zhao Guo Wei wrote: > I did send my questions to questions@freebsd.org, but I never get response from there. Since you are selling the Free BSD, I think that it may be easy to talk to the developers about this problem. I would appreciate if you could help on this. > > I look forward to hearing from you. > > Regards, > Gorton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Jenvey [SMTP:support@cdrom.com] > Sent: Saturday, June 20, 1998 6:15 AM > To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei > Subject: RE: Problems on installing Free BSD 2.2.6 > > This is a very unusual problem. You should email questions@freebsd.org for > help. This is a mailing list monitored by the developers of FreeBSD. They > should be able to help you with your problems. > > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Gorton Zhao Guo Wei wrote: > > > Thank you for your response. > > > > Please see my questions in yours. I would appreciate if you could give a quick response because we are waiting for the BSD up for a project. > > > > Regards, > > Gorton > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Phil Jenvey [SMTP:support@cdrom.com] > > Sent: Friday, June 19, 1998 5:10 AM > > To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei > > Subject: Re: Problems on installing Free BSD 2.2.6 > > > > On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Gorton Zhao Guo Wei wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I just bought a Free BSD CDs (4 pieces of CD-ROM). The title of those CDs is > > > "Free BSD 2.2.6, A full 4.4 BSD Lite Based 32 bit Operating system' from > > > Walnut Greek CDROM. > > > > > > My system is Pentium PC with 32MB ram + a PCI network card + PCI VGA card. > > > In the same system, I have tried to install Linux, QNX, and Windows NT/98/95 > > > as well successfully, but I could not install Free BSD successfully on that > > > PC. I tried to install Free BSD on a new harddisk without having any > > > operating system on it, and with a dos partition on the harddisk. The > > > problem appears at the same. > > > > What do you mean you tried to install it to a new hard disk without any O/S on > > it with a DOS partition? > > [Gorton Zhao G W [R&D]] > > Yes, I tried to install Free BSD on a hard-disk without any OS and without a DOS partition. I mean that I tried to install Free BSD alone on a hard disk. I tried to install it on a hard disk with a DOS partition too. I actually did many tries for the Fr > ee BSD installation. All were not successful. > > > > > I followed the installation instructions to install Free BSD from a IDE > > > CD-ROM drive. Everything seemed to be okay during installation, but after > > > re-boot the machine, the error message 'panic: cannot mount root' came out > > > and the system kept rebooting every 15 seconds. I would appreciate any help > > > on this. > > > > What kind of hard drive is this? Was it detected correctly at boot time? Is it > > set to LBA mode or something similar in the BIOS (to limit the total number of > > cylinders to under 1024)? > > > > [Gorton Zhao G W [R&D]] > > I guess that the problem could be this because the wd2 (hard-disk parameters) was not displayed properly at bootup, but I did set it to LBA mode in BIOS. The hard disk parameters is SIZE 1282, CYLS 621, HEAD 64 LANDZ 2483 SECTOR 63 MODE LBA. > > > > I checked these hard-disk parameters from fdisk during instillation. All was correct when running fdisk, but after re-boot the computer, it is reset to a wrong parameter (CYLS 1422). It was strange to me as everything (fdisk and copy files) was okay d ur > ing installation. There was no problem getting correct hard-disk parameter at that time, but it fails after re-boot. > > > > > > > > > I also found that there were no source codes at /usr/src/sys directory under > > > disc #2. I think that it should be there because this disc is included all > > > uncompressed files. Not sure if there are anything wrong with the CDs. > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Gorton Zhao > > > Multiwave Innovation Pte Ltd > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Phil Jenvey > > Technical Support > > Walnut Creek CDROM > > > > > > -- > Phil Jenvey > Technical Support > Walnut Creek CDROM > > -- Phil Jenvey Technical Support Walnut Creek CDROM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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