From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 13 20:52:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA08753 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 20:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA08723 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 20:51:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrisc@vmunix.com) Received: from localhost (chrisc@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA27843; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 23:53:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 23:53:38 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Coleman X-Sender: chrisc@vinyl.quickweb.com To: Eric Simpson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Several things In-Reply-To: <01BD07F9.128A5A30@INFINIA> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Eric Simpson wrote: > Chris, > > Maybe you know the answer to this... I followed the > instructions in your Installing section. When I installed FreeBSD both > from a downloaded version, and the 4 CD set I bought from Walnut Creek > CDROM, it seemed like everything went fine until it came to to "Exit > Install" and reboot. When it rebooted, I got a rather non-descript > error message saying, "Read error." And then the system hung. Any idea > what I might be doing wrong? I've installed Linux (Redhad and > Slackware) and haven't had any sort of problem like this. > That is a very non-descript error. I am not sure what it is. If everything seemed to install correctly, this shouldn't happen. Could you elaborate a little about when during the reboot the problem occured. (during the device probe, during the filesystem check...) What kind of disks do you have SCSI or IDE etc... Is this all on one disk, or multiple? --Chris > > - Eric > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Coleman [SMTP:chrisc@vmunix.com] > Sent: Saturday, December 13, 1997 4:16 PM > To: Eric Simpson > Cc: fbsd-book@quickweb.com > Subject: Re: Several things > > Thanks for the interest in our book. Keep an eye on our web pages, we are > working on them as fast as we can. I just rewrote part 1 yesterday, > trying to make it flow a little better. Take a look at it and tell me > what you think. > > Any suggestions are welcome. > > --Chris > > > >