From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Mar 26 20:55:04 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA03683 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 20:55:04 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA03674 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 20:54:52 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA07747; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:51:38 +1000 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:51:38 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199503270451.OAA07747@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: acs@gate1.internet-eireann.ie, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: v2.0 install Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I've got an ESDI hard disk. The 1st partiton is 220 mb for DOS, and the >rest, 101 mb, is for FreeBSD. I've booted off the boot_144.flp image and >have done my fdisk work. I then used disklabel to set-up partition 'a' as 76 >mb for '/' and 'b' as 25 mb for 'swap'. So I've made everything as simple as >possible. When I come out of disklabel and choose proceed, it comes up with >a windows titled progress, saying 'newfs /dev/rwd0a' then the errors start >happening; the 1st error says 'wd0 interrupt timeout status 59 error 0'. >After a few more errors it comes up with a window titled fatal and says >'exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code 9216'. The disk apparently has unmarked bad sector. If the disk has any bad sectors, then FreeBSD-2.0 doesn't support it. FreeBSD-2.1 should support it. Bruce