From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 05:57:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF8316A4E0 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrianesquisi@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFB843D6A for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:57:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adrianesquisi@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b36so2654765pyb for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:57:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=MgeFgnQtVQQyQBO8afOUM1k44y8APzIUs9S3XsDEFZmuN4qooz4XbG4KOG2Impl+zJ8rnTCj26wvA+D6msATGBm4WfCOuLArZfaV4tzWaXP7ycQhzK2+v37CCMrMC3x6TCEMG/RKA7cS7SVXbeLBPlZdcNnQyVg/6Gy+3HddsPA= Received: by 10.35.106.15 with SMTP id i15mr10762510pym; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.14.10 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:57:28 -0600 From: "adrian esquivel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: help installing FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:57:37 -0000 Hi! I've been trying to install FBSD on my computer, but I keep getting an error message that I have absolutely no idea what it means. This is what I get when I hit Alt+F2 DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=67 DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions fstab: /etc/fstab:0: No such file or directory /dev/ad0s1a: 512.0MB (1048576 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 4 cylinder grops of 128.02MB, 893 blks, 16448 inodes. ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=191 super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=191 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=191 newfs:: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 160: Input/output error ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=223 ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=223 ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 error=84 LBA=223 I've got a Maxtor of 60GB as primary master. My geometry is wrongly reported by the installation program, it reports a geometry of 119108/16/63 while the BIOS reports one of 1024/240/63. I think this has nothing to do since I'm planning to have FreeBSD as the only OS of the machine, but you never know... These errors are shown just after I leave the partition editor, when they give the warning of making Back ups. Then the 'Writing partitions; message is shown and then the last one that says: "Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36" Please help me! I've been asking everywhere and nobody answers me... Is there no solution for my problem????