From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 7:53: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727CA37B886 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 07:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dalcocer@home.com) Received: from pino.localdomain.home.com ([24.0.45.247]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000507145301.SGCY13130.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@pino.localdomain.home.com> for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 07:53:01 -0700 From: Dario Alcocer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with newfs when installing 4.0 Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 07:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20000507145301.SGCY13130.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@pino.localdomain.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Folks, I've run into problems trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on a NEC 486/66MHz machine. I'm using the Custom installation procedure, and when it comes time to partition the disk, 'fdisk' has an incorrect geometry for the disk. After I set the correct cylinder, heads, and sectors values (Quantum LPS210A, 201MB), I continue with the installation, but when 'newfs' runs, 'sysinstall' says: Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rad0s1a. I ran the installation again, this time enabling debugging on the second console, and when the failure occurred again, I switched over to the debugging console and found this: DEBUG: Executing command 'newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/rad0s1a' Warning: 2048 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rad0s1a: 387072 sectors in 95 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors 189.0MB in 6 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7872 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, 65568. 131104, 196640, 262176, 327712 cg 0: bad magic number write error: 0 newfs: wtfs: Read-only file system DEBUG: Command 'newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/rad0s1a' returns status of 36 Any ideas on how to overcome this problem? -- Dario Alcocer // dalcocer@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message