Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 00:23:14 -0500 From: Scott Nichol <snichol@netreach.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation hangs Message-ID: <33224913.4BDA@netreach.net>
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I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.6 from CD-ROM. The target system is a UMC based 486 PCI motherboard, 16M RAM, NE2000 NIC, Tseng SVGA, Adaptec 1542C SCSI controller, Toshiba 3401 SCSI CD-ROM and single Conner hard drive. I'll note here that the Adaptec controller is *very* old; the BIOS is 1.01 and the board does *not* support Fast SCSI. The kernel loads successfully for both CD-ROM and floppy install; all hardware appears to be detected correctly. I choose the Novice install, Entire disk (I've tried both "true partition geometry" and not), BootMgr, Auto defaults and CD-ROM. After confirming that I wish to proceed, the install program says "Writing partition information to drive sd0". At this point, my drive activity LED lights and stays on. Soon thereafter, I get the message "sysinstall: write: Input/output error" "Panic: going nowhere without my init" The install program was able to write to the SCSI drive well enough to wipe out my original DOS partitioning (at my request). I have done a low-level format on the drive and checked for bad blocks, too. The disk and controller had been running on an NT system for about three years with no problems I know of. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks. -- Scott Nichol
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