Date: Mon, 1 May 95 07:02:25 EST From: stheby@drsys.com To: questions@FreeBSD.org, chris@admin.starnet.net Subject: Installation Problem Message-ID: <Chameleon.950501073026.set@wilderness.drsys.com>
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Help! Problem/Error Message Receive following message during sysinstall task: Exec/stand/newfs failed code=9216 write error 536103 wtfs: input/output error and on Alt f2 Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (1008) Discussion I've made a dozen attempts to make the disk label and sysinstall sector counts match but to no avail. I've even reformatted the ESDI drive using the built in controller BIOS code with debug at g=d800:5. The drive geometry reported from the controller software is as follows: 1224 cylinders 15 heads 35 sectors sector mapping: 63, track mapping: no Following one of your suggestions in the install doc I allocated 10MB for a DOS slice and successfully got that going. This leaves the rest the drive to FreeBSD. I thought the sysinstall code would pick up the drive geometry from what DOS had done but apparently not. System Configuration Compaq 386 with 5MB memory ESDI Microscribe 313MB drive, type 38 Ultrastor ESDI controller, wd1007 vintage I've run diagnostics on memory and disk and no problems were reported. I've also successfully installed DOS on this same system with no problems. Any suggestions? Steve -------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: stheby@drsys.com (Steve Theby) Phone: 1-314-214-4025 Fax: 1-314-214-4030 Date: 05/01/95 Time: 07:02:26 ftp.drsys.com --------------------------------------------------------
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