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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 20:32:37 -0600 (MDT)
From: John Patrick Poet <jpoet@rt66.com>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.0.5A (Jun 6) Won't install for me :(
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I re-partitioned my 4 gig drive, so that I could intall FreeBSD 2.0.5A
in the first 2gig instead of the 2nd 2gig --- everything work great.

Decided to try and partition the 2nd 2gig -- no joy.  I am suppose to
run fdisk on it, right?

Anyway, tried booting the 2.0.5A install disk again to partition the
drive and got the exact same result as when I first tried to install
FreeBSD 2.0.5A on it:

sysinstall: read Input/Ouput error
panic: going nowhere without my init

There deffinately seems to be something wrong with the new slicing
mechanism when talking to a disk over 2gig.  A couple of months ago I
managed to get the april snap installed on the 2nd 2gig of that drive,
so this is something new with 2.0.5.  I can also use the 2nd 2gig of
the drive for a Linux partition, without any trouble.

I suppose I could try partitioning the WHOLE 4gig as one big partion
for FreeBSD, but I would like to split it so I can easily repartion
for another operating system if I need to.  I would be willing to do
it as a test, if anyone wants me to.

Messages from boot are:

ahc1: 284x Single Channel, SCSI ID=7, aic777 >= REV E, 4SCBs
ahc1: Using Edge Triggered Interrupts
ahc1: Downloading Sequencer Program...Done
ahc1 at 0x1000 - 0x10ff irq 11 on eisa slot 1
ahc1 waiting for scsi decices to settle
ahc1: target 0 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s, offset 0xf
(ahc1:0:0): "MICROP 1624-07MZ1077811 H22P" type 0 fixed SCSI 1
sd0(ahc1:0:0): Direct-Access 642MB (1316751 512 byte sectors)
ahc1: target 1 synchronous at 5.0 MB/s, offset 0xf
(ahc1:1:0): "MAXTOR P1-17S LB22" type 0 fixed SCSI 1
sd1(ahc1:1:0): Direct-Access 1433MB (2936593 512 byte sectors)
ahc1: target 2 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s, offset 0xf
(ahc1:2:0): "MICROP 3243-19SC21020AV CN05" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd2(ahc1:2:0): Direct-Access 4095MB (8388315 512 byte sectors)

Got any suggestions?

Thanks,

John


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