Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 09:52:39 +0059 (MET) From: Andreas Schulz <ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> To: marrano@passport.ca (Mario Marrano) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: trouble with freebsd v.2 Message-ID: <199501300852.JAA10970@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> In-Reply-To: <m0rYm9L-0002HLC@forged.passport.ca> from "Mario Marrano" at Jan 29, 95 09:47:00 pm
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> 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<abnrml> st1 4<sec_not_fnd> st2 10<wrong_cyl> 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
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