From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 13:27: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scooby.lineone.net (doggy.lineone.net [194.75.152.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3556537B756 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Roger@aeon-uk.net) Received: from unspecified.host (host213-1-26-184.host.btclick.com [213.1.26.184]) by scooby.lineone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA04173 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:26:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from 192.168.0.2 ([192.168.0.2]) by 192.168.0.1 (WinRoute Pro 4.1) with SMTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:27:40 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Roger Bacon" To: Subject: Installing FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:25:25 +0100 Message-ID: <002201bfdc87$ffe47080$0200a8c0@ESMERELDA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full install steps, that I could get, had to be retyped to a w2k machine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /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 2949120 at 0xc0315b98 md1: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq14 on atapci0 pci0: at 7.2 irq 15 chip1: port 0x5000-0x500f at device 7.3 on pci0 ed0: port 0x6500-0x651f irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0 ed0: address 00:00:e0:dd:3b:a7, type NE2000 (16 bit) pci0: at 19.0 irq 10 fdc0: 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: at port 0x60-0x6f on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> ad0: 6485MB [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 50MB * ad0s1b swap 69MB SWAP ad0s1e 20MB * ad0s1f 6345MB * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message