From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 11 15:18:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25044 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eesn17.ews.uiuc.edu (eesn17.ews.uiuc.edu [130.126.161.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25031 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:18:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ramasubr@ews.uiuc.edu) Received: from localhost (ramasubr@localhost) by eesn17.ews.uiuc.edu (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA16490 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:18:44 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eesn17.ews.uiuc.edu: ramasubr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 17:18:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Vijay Ramasubramanian To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installation probs w/3.0-BETA Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. I am trying to install the 3.0-19981009-BETA release. Here is my hardware configuration: AMD K6-233 (one of the latest revisions) Intel TX chipset motherboard w/512KB cache 64 MB SDRAM AdvanSys ABP-940 SCSI host adapter, SCSI ID 7 IBM DCAS 2.2 GB Ultra SCSI drive, SCSI ID 0 IBM DCAS 2.2 GB Ultra SCSI drive, SCSI ID 1 Fujitsu 405 MB Fast SCSI-2 drive, SCSI ID 2 NEC 3X SCSI CD-ROM, SCSI ID 3 S3 Virge-based PCI video card SMC EtherPower II (9432TX) PCI Ethernet card PS/2 Logitech mouse I have a dedicated internet connection via the ethernet. The way I partition and label the drives for installation are as follows: Drive 0 (IBM 2.2 GB): 400MB FAT16 (Windows 95 resides here) Remainder FreeBSD FS, mount at: / Leave MBR alone (I had planned on installing System Commander later) Drive 1 (IBM 2.2 GB): Dedicated FreeBSD FS, mount at: /home Drive 2 (Fujitsu 405 MB): Dedicated FreeBSD 202 MB SWAP 202 MB FreeBSD FS, mount at: /scratch I had planned to run the /var and /usr directories off the root FS partition. At boot-time, I configure the kernel and disable all devices that I don't have (including ISA ethernet and SCSI cards, etc). Once I get the installation via FTP started (from ftp.freebsd.org), it progresses to 34% and then crashes. The progress bar reads "Extracting bin into / directory..." The stats bar at the bottom reads: "9438208 bytes read from bin dist, chunk 40 of 116 @ 13.4kB/sec" The error messages are as follows: Panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir Syncing disks... 143 143 143 70 40 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up (da2:adv0:0:2:0): . CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da2:adv0:0:2:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc: 20,0 (da2:adv0:0:2:0): And then of course, the automatic reboot stuff, etc. It seems that it's having problems with SCSI device 2, which is the Fujitsu drive. I have scanned the drive for bad sectors with Norton Utils and SpinRite (there aren't any). I have also used the disk heavily under Windows 95 and NT and there have been no problems with it. Thus I don't know why it would have problems with the Fujitsu. Also, the rest of the hardware has also been run under 95 and NT and works fine. Can anyone tell me how to go about getting this resolved? PLEASE CC replies to me personally. Thank you. .______ | Vijay N. Ramasubramanian mailto:ramasubr@ews.uiuc.edu http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~ramasubr/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message