Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:02:02 +0200 From: "Kristof Peeters" <kristof.peeters@iname.com> To: <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Can't install kernel... Message-ID: <006501befc34$52d45a60$39f74bc1@mp-piii450-dvd>
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Hi everybody, I recently bought the FreeBSD 3.2 distribution... complete with book and all 4 CD-roms from Walnut Creek. About the last 7 hours I tried to install this excellent operating system. I previously installed a 3.0 distribution on an different computer and now I had to start all over... The computer is a Pentium 133 with 16 Mb - 2 Hard Disks (1.2 Gb and 850 Mb) No problem at all, i guess. So I tried to dual boot it, together with Windows 98. Since it was preinstalled, I kept Windows 98 on my C-drive and wanted to install FreeBSD on the D-drive. I booted with the 2 bootdisks (kernel and mfsroot) Strangely in the book they told something about 'Uncompressing kernel...' I never saw that, but nevertheless, the system booted. First I tried to skip kernel configuration and continue installation but a second time I started kernel configuration and deleted all conflicting devices such as ethernet cards, which I don't have. Then I began a Novice installation, created some space on my D-drive. For the labels I generated something manually: root ... about 40 Mb swap... about 150 Mb usr ... all the rest of the 850 Mb They recommended in the book to place the /var file system in the /usr file system. That's what I did. I selected an X-user Distribution... no Des and no Ports Collection, (that's for later on). Then I started with Installing from a FreeBSD CD-Rom. All went fine... until I got an error message. When I switched to the /dev/ttyv1 I got some more information: WD1S1A: hard error reading fsbn 34988 of 34912-35039 (wd1s1 bn 34988; cn 17 tn 11 sn 23) (status 59<rdy,seekdone,drq,err>error 40 <uncorr>) vm_fault: pager read error, pid (cp) cp: /kernel: bad address So, then the installation stopped and I had to reboot... Surprisingly, I've selected to install the bootmanager that was on the disk. Windows 98 started to boot... I didn't even had a chance to select any OS. What went wrong, and what can I do about it? Greetz, Kristof Peeters To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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