From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 29 01:43:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA28339 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 01:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA28332 Fri, 29 Mar 1996 01:43:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA28387; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 01:42:58 -0800 (PST) To: "Brett Glass" cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:27:44 PST." <9602288280.AA828064224@ccgate.infoworld.com> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 01:42:58 -0800 Message-ID: <28385.828092578@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hmmmmm. Now this smells like a cache problem! :-( Jordan > Partitioning with DOS does get rid of the geometry rejection problem. > (Though, for some reason, fdisk sets the geometry to 1/1/1 as I partition > and I have to reset it. This is apparently a bug.) However, I still had > problems. This time, instead of freezing, the system brought up a dialogue > box with the message: > > Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1536 bytes) > > On VTY2, The system showed: > > pid 32: gunzip: uid 0: exited on signal 11 > pid 31: cpio: uid 0: exited on signal 11 > > (I don't remember my UNIX signals that well, but I seem to recall that > signal 11 is SIGTERM.) > > The last file copied (it varies from run to run) was kernel.GENERIC. > > Trying to continue the install returned additional "wrote -1 bytes of X > bytes" messages. > > RAM tests good. About the only other thing I could try replacing is the > disk drive. Unfortunately, I don't have another to replace it with.... > > --Brett >