From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 4 22:38:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA29521 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 22:38:51 -0700 Received: from Chopper.rt66.com (jpoet@pma03.rt66.com [198.59.162.23]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA29513 ; Sun, 4 Jun 1995 22:38:48 -0700 Received: (from jpoet@localhost) by Chopper.rt66.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id AAA00099; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 00:44:36 -0600 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 00:44:36 -0600 (MDT) From: John Patrick Poet To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers-digest@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5A (Jun 4 12:09) Won't install for me :( In-Reply-To: <199506050437.VAA23073@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 Jun 1995, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > When the system is booting, you can hit scroll-lock once the console has > been probed, then copy them to paper. Dmesg is not availible from the > boot floppy. One of the reasons I got into computers, was so I wouldn't have to hand-write so much :) Anyway, hope the following helps: Disk info from boot: ahc1: 284x Single Channel, SCSI ID=7, aic777 >= REV E, 4SCBs ahc1: Using Edge Triggered Interrupts ahc1: Downloading Sequencer Program...Done ahc1 at 0x1000 - 0x10ff irq 11 on eisa slot 1 ahc1 waiting for scsi decices to settle ahc1: target 0 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s, offset 0xf (ahc1:0:0): "MICROP 1624-07MZ1077811 H22P" type 0 fixed SCSI 1 sd0(ahc1:0:0): Direct-Access 642MB (1316751 512 byte sectors) ahc1: target 1 synchronous at 5.0 MB/s, offset 0xf (ahc1:1:0): "MAXTOR P1-17S LB22" type 0 fixed SCSI 1 sd1(ahc1:1:0): Direct-Access 1433MB (2936593 512 byte sectors) ahc1: target 2 synchronous at 10.0 MB/s, offset 0xf (ahc1:2:0): "MICROP 3243-19SC21020AV CN05" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd2(ahc1:2:0): Direct-Access 4095MB (8388315 512 byte sectors) Disk info from partion screen: ------- Disk name: sd1 BIOS Geometry: 1433 cyls/64 heads/32 sectors Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0 32 1945568 1945599 sd1s1 2 fat 6 1945600 63488 2009087 sd1s2 3 freebsd 165 C 2009088 925696 2934783 sd1s3 1 unknown 131 > 2934784 1809 2936592 - 6 unused 0 > ------- Disk name: sd2 BIOS Geometry: 4095 cyls/64 heads/32 sectors Offset Size End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0 32 4194272 4194303 sd2s1 1 unknown 131 > 4194394 4192256 8386559 sd2s2 3 freebsd 165 C 8386560 1755 8388314 - 6 unused 0 -------- Disk info from disklabel screen: Part Mount Size Newfs sd1s1 /dos 949MB DOS sd1s2a / 31MB Y sd2s2e /usr 350MB Y sd2s2b swap 100MB sd2s2f /usr/local 350MB Y sd2s2g /home 1247MB Y --------- Message when it all dies: sysinstall: read Input/Ouput error panic: going nowhere without my init I believe that when this message appears, it is trying to write the partition table to sd2. Is there any other information I can get to help track this down? Thanks for all the sleepless nights Justin... John | | +--+ == | John Patrick Poet | | | jpoet@rt66.com | +---+ | |