From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 8:53: 2 2002 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 E8F2B37B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 08:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.samuelstn.dhs.org (h24-64-81-248.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.81.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37BF743E70 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 08:51:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyschow@shaw.ca) Received: (qmail 88652 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2002 15:45:00 -0000 Received: from celeron (192.168.1.6) by homeserver with SMTP; 14 Jul 2002 15:45:00 -0000 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 09:45:00 -0600 From: Samuel Chow To: "Jethro Borsje" Cc: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing BSD Message-Id: <20020714094500.23f37ff3.cyschow@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <00f001c22b44$68fdcff0$0100a8c0@jethro> References: <00db01c22b3d$41545340$0100a8c0@jethro> <20020714140307.GA26599@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <00f001c22b44$68fdcff0$0100a8c0@jethro> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:40:29 +0200 "Jethro Borsje" wrote: > > If you hit Alt-F2 when you get the 'status 36' mesage, there should be > > some more informative error messages visible. That should tell us > > exactly what's happening. > > > DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem > DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions > Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 94. > /dev/ad0s1a: 262144 sectors in 64 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 128.0MB in 1 cyl groups (94 c/g, 188.00MB/g, 16256 i/g) > super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: > ad0s1a: hard error writing fsbn 822 of 376-383 (ad0s1 bn 822; cn 0 tn 13 > sn 3) status=51 error=10 > write error: 128 > newfs: wtfs - writecombine: Input/output error The 'hard error' pretty much indicates a bad disk. Since the bad track (tn = 13) is at the beginning of the disk, you might want to try to create a small FAT slice to skip the bad track. If I were you, I would go buy and replace this dying disk. --- Samuel Chow cyschow@shaw.ca Segmentation Fault (core dumped) This message is displayed using recycled electrons. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message