Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:52:29 -0500 From: mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> To: Johansson Jan <jajoa@wmdata.com> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Install boggle (4.4) Message-ID: <20011017095229.A79620@mikea.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <E500C07A3D64D31182F00008C7DB992804DA464B@WMSI000168>; from jajoa@wmdata.com on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:40:56PM %2B0200 References: <E500C07A3D64D31182F00008C7DB992804DA464B@WMSI000168>
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Johansson Jan wrote: > Trying to install 4.4 on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 (P166) with a 40 gig disk as pri. master, and a ATAPI CD as pri. slave. Everything goes well until "Writing Partition Information", when i get a lot of > > ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > > then the installer returns > > WARNING! Unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b: Device not configured > This may cause the instralltion to fail at some point > if you don't have a lot of memory > > (i press enter) > > Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a > Command returned status 1 > > (enter) > > Couldnt make filesystems properly. Aborting. > > I have searched the handbook, faq, mailinglists, and i cant seem to find any light at the end of this tunnel.. I've seen this a few times; it appears to be due to a glitch that lets you get into the install proper before the disk labels are written and newfs runs. I had to do a "w" in the partition and label steps to force the partitions to be made and the filesystems to be created. -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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