From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jan 18 22:23:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA13395 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from world.net (sydney2.world.net [198.142.12.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA13369 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:22:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sydney44.world.net (sydney44.world.net [192.190.215.44]) by world.net (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA08033 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:22:31 +1100 (EST) Received: by sydney44.world.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BAE692.BDE316E0@sydney44.world.net>; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:22:43 +-1100 Message-ID: <01BAE692.BDE316E0@sydney44.world.net> From: Steve Elliott To: "'bugs@freebsd.org'" Subject: FreeBSD 2.1 installation on Dell 4100 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:21:16 +-1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have been attempting to install FreeBSD 2.1 onto a Dell Omniplex 4100 without much success! I have built and booted the 'makeflp.bat' floppy, and the installation recognises my configuration. Following 'novice' installation which does a create a 1024Mb partition sd1s3 a label which produces sd1s3a, sd1s3b, sd1s3e & sd1s3f no boot mgr option a selection of a developer distribution a medium of CD-ROM the commit gives the following messages Sysinstall: read : Input/Output error panic: Going nowhere without my init. Synching disks ... done Autoboot in 15 sec - press any key to abort --> Press a key to continue to reboot <-- ALT-f2 has the following messages ncr?: scatter/gather failed (residue 1606564352) sd1: oops not queued bidone buffer already done init died (signal 0, exit 1) My configuration is: DX4-100 16 Mb wt0 is recognised (@300/irq5/drq1) (Everex QIC-36) NCR 53c810, PCI v2.0 SCSI 00 DEC DSP 3107LS (1Gb) (single FAT16 partition) SCSI 01 NEC CD-ROM: 500 SCSI 02 SEAGATE ST15230N (4Gb) (>2Gb DOSext partition, 512Mb OS/2 partition, >1.5Gb free) Any suggestions would be welcomed. ------------------------------------------------------ Steve Elliott, | Voice: +61 (0)41 12 608 12 | NORESE Pty. Ltd. | Fax: +61 (0)2 555 7911 | 4, Glassop St. Balmain | eMail: selliott@world.net | NSW 2041 Australia | Home: www.world.net/~selliott|