From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jan 28 15:23:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA10051 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:23:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101136.iafrica.com [196.7.101.136]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA10046 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:22:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA00226; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:20:29 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601282320.BAA00226@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD from DOS partition To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:20:27 +0200 (SAT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, bugs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601281602.AA13485@ruddles.stat.uconn.edu> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Jan 28, 96 11:02:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > . . . . . > I have a strong suspicion as to what is going on. I was able to install > the minimal FreeBSD distribution from floppy. I guess that means that > the bin files are not corrupt. I don't have a means to check that the > copies on my hard-drive are not corrupt, but I believe that the evidence > is against this anyway. My belief is that the FreeBSD kernel is reading > from the floppy device correctly, but not reading correctly from my hard- > drive. . . . . . Sorry to learn you've been having such trouble getting FreeBSD installed from your MS-DOS partition. :-( If you wouldn't mind, there is some information you can provide that would assist us in investigating problems that sometimes occur when FIPS has been used to split an existing MS-DOS partition. FIPS can be run in 'test/debug' mode, and will then generate a file 'fipsinfo.dbg' containing diagnostic data relating to your MS-DOS filesystem. The command to do this is fips -t -d (The option -t disables writes to disk. The option -d enables debugging.) The procedure should not make any changes to your hard disk. It also shouldn't take more than a minute or so. A sample session is given below (only prompts for input are shown): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C:\>fips -t -d Press any Key Which Drive (1=0x80/2=0x81)? 1 Which Partition do you want to split (1/2)? 1 Do you want to make a backup copy of your root- and bootsector before proceeding (y/n)? ************************************* ***** Hit Ctrl-C at this point. ***** ************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you can e-mail me the 'fipsinfo.dbg' file (for the MS-DOS partition from which you could not install FreeBSD), it'd be a help in getting to the bottom of this. -- Robert Nordier