From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 30 00:51:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA25558 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 00:51:47 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA25552 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 00:51:41 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08935; Mon, 30 Jan 95 09:51:26 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (JAA10970); Mon, 30 Jan 1995 09:52:39 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199501300852.JAA10970@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: trouble with freebsd v.2 To: marrano@passport.ca (Mario Marrano) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 09:52:39 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Mario Marrano" at Jan 29, 95 09:47:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 863 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hope someone can direct me to the right group, in any case i've > got a problem installing v.2 onto my 486sx25 with 2 ide drives, > 1 scsi drive and scsi cd-rom. There is also 12mb ram and a vlb > ide controller. I get an error message when booting from > boot.flp > to the tune:"fd0c:hard error reading fsbn 16 of 16-31 (st0 > 40 st1 4 st2 10 cyl0 hd0 sec17) > panic:cannot mount root Are your floppies correctly entered in your BIOS setup ? It fails on sector 16, so i suspect you used a 1.44Mb floppy, but your BIOS thinks the floppy drive is only a 1.2Mb floppy. 1.2Mb drives have 15 sectors, 1.44Mb drives 18 sectors. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe