Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:25:25 +0100 From: "Roger Bacon" <Roger@aeon-uk.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Installing FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <002201bfdc87$ffe47080$0200a8c0@ESMERELDA>
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Hi there
I am having problems installing FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE on a home built box.
The spec is a follows
Tomato Board 5STX ( Intel 430TX Motherboard)
32MB of memory
Cryix 6x68MX-PR200 CPU
Maxtor 90680D4 6.4GB Hard Drive as master on IDE0 (IDE1 disabled)
Realtek RTL8029AS based nic
Videologic Grafixstar 600 (ET6000 based)
Starting afresh on a clean HD and installing from 2 newly made floppies I
get, in
the end, the following error
Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rad0s1a!
command returned status 36
full install details below. Any suggestions welcome. I have had Dos, Win98,
Win2K
tri-booting off the same setup stable for about 1.5 years (NT4 before W2K
around).
Also have successfully installed FreeBSD from same floppy images on the disk
with
different motherboard, but had to give MB back. With installed FreeBSD
4.0-RELEASE
with current motherboard the boot would hang at somepoint with a timeout
error
writing to disk (sorry can't be more specific as had to reformat the disk
and can't
recreate until I get this sorted.)
Am willing to try any ideas with the setup as it isn't going anywhere till I
get
this sorted.
Thanks for help.
Roger Bacon
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Full install steps, that I could get, had to be retyped to a w2k machine
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/boot.config: -P
Keyboard: yes
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 639kB/31744kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7
(root@monster.cdrom.com. Mon Mar 20 21:05:31)
/kernel text=0x1d581e data=0x24c60+0x1a718 :
Please insert MFS root floppy and press enter:
\
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel]
using the visual configuration util I took out all except
Dev IRQ Port DRQ
ata0 14 0x1f0
ata1 15 0x170
fdc0 6 0x3f0 2
ed0 10 0x280
atkbd0 1
psm0 12
sc0
npx0 13 0xf0
after this setup get the following
avail memory = 26640384 (26016K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc05e7000
Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot" at 0xc05e7084
md0: Preloaded image </mfsroot> 2949120 at 0xc0315b98
md1: Malloc disk
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on
pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq14 on atapci0
pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 7.2 irq 15
chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0x5000-0x500f at
device 7.3 on pci0
ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> port 0x6500-0x651f irq 11 at
device 17.0 on pci0
ed0: address 00:00:e0:dd:3b:a7, type NE2000 (16 bit)
pci0: <Tseng Labs ET6000/ET6100 graphics accelerator> at 19.0 irq 10
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60-0x6f on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200>
ad0: 6485MB <Maxtor 90680D4> [13176/16/631] at ata0-master using UDMA33
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
I then selected Standard installation
Tell sysinstall/fdisk to use the entire disk with a true partition entry
Install a standard MBR
Then using sysinstall/disklabel editor use the auto defaults for all so
getting
ad0s1a / 50MB UFS Y
ad0s1b swap 69MB SWAP
ad0s1e /var 20MB UFS Y
ad0s1f /usr 6345MB UFS Y
Then select the minimal installation from ftp, freebsd.org with a dchp
configed interface,
running a 192.168.xxx.xxx network in-house with DCHP being supplied by a NT
box
running winroute.
The system then hangs saying
Making a new root filesystem on /dev/rad0s1a
pressing ALT F2 gives
DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success)
DEBUG: Can't open PC-card controller /dev/card0.
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
Listening on BPF/ed0/00:00:e8:dd:3b:a7
Sending on BPF/ed0/00:00:e8:dd:3b:a7
Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on ed0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1
DHCPREQUEST on ed0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
/sbin/dhclient-script: /bin/hostname: not found
New IP Address(ed0): 192.168.0.6
New Subnet Mask (ed0): 255.255.255.0
New Broadcast Address(ed0): 192.168.0.255
New Routers: 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.6 -- renewal in 172800 seconds.
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
/dev/rad0s1a: 102400 sectors in 25 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors
50.0MB in 2 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 6272 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. done
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. done
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. done
this is repeated a few times, then
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. device disappeared! 1 ata0-master: timeout
waiting to give command=c6 s=80 e=00
ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=ef s=80 e=00
ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=ef s=80 e=00
ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=ef s=80 e=00
done
ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=c5 s=80 e=00
ad0: error executing command
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. device disappeared! 1 ata0-master: timeout
waiting to give command=c6 s=80 e=00
ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=ef s=80 e=00
done
ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=c5 s=80 e=00
ad0: error executing command
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. device disappeared! 1 ata0-master: timeout
waiting to give command=c6 s=80 e=00
ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=ef s=80 e=00
done
ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=c5 s=80 e=00
ad0: error executing command
ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting
ata0: resetting devices .. device disappeared! 1 ata0-master: timeout
waiting to give command=c6 s=80 e=00
ata0-master: timeout waiting to give command=ef s=80 e=00
done
write error: 512
newfs: wtfs: Input/Output error
Then get
Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rad0s1a!
command returned status 36
If I then reset the computer the hard disk vanishes from BIOS auto-detect,
but if I power off then back on
it reappears. DOS fdisk detects a Non-DOS partion on the disk but
reinstalling from the floppies shows two
partitions
Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 13281345 13281407 ad0s1 3 freebsd 165 C>
Disklable then shows the following
Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs
ad0s1a <none> 50MB *
ad0s1b swap 69MB SWAP
ad0s1e <none> 20MB *
ad0s1f <none> 6345MB *
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