Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:04:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Dario Alcocer <dalcocer@home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with newfs when installing 4.0 Message-ID: <14611.5597.195680.561324@pino.localdomain>
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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
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