Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 14:41:02 -0500 From: lihsin@astro.phys.clemson.edu (Lih-Sin The) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help on freebsd installation Message-ID: <9602111941.AA25548@astro.phys.clemson.edu>
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Thanks for your respond and accusing me of :)
msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au wrote:
> (lots and lots of details; this is an excellent bugreport!)
> Lih-Sin The stands accused of saying:
> I have tried many times to install FreeBSD 2.1 from Walnut Creek CDROM
> January 1996 to our 486dx2 PC with 8MBRAM, Adaptec 1540CF scsi controller,
> 325MB IDE drive and MICROPOLIS 4110-09NB_Nov189F 1.02GB scsi disk (scsi id 0),
> and NEC scsi cdrom (scsi id 4), but always find trouble during the
> installation. The sequence/procedure of the installation is shown below.
> I'll appreciate very much if you can give me suggestions on how to pass
> through the installation. I might missed some installation procedure.
>> You have a busmastering SCSI controller; it's possible that your motherboard
>> or CPU doesn't work properly with it. Try turning off all caching in your
>> BIOS (CPU internal cache and motherboard cache) and see if you get the
>> same crash. Your install procedure looks fine.
> 0. in dos, make bootfloppy from cdrom, by typing: makeflp.
> 1. boot freebsd with floppy or from cdrom by typing: install
> 2. then "Welcome to FreeBSD window" appears
> choose: Novice installation
> 3. choose sd0 ScSI disk device with spacebar then carriage return
> 4. a screen show disk name: sd0
> disk geometry: 1002 cyls/64 head/32 sectors
> offset size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags
> 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0
> 32 901088 901119 sd0s1 1 unknown 131
> 901120 124928 1026047 sd0s2 1 unknown 130
> 1026048 1027832 2053879 - 6 unused 0 <-reverse video
> 5. type C for creating a partition
> with specified size : 1027832
> and the screen look as:
> disk name: sd0
> disk geometry: 1002 cyls/64 head/32 sectors
> offset size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags
> 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0
> 32 901088 901119 sd0s1 1 unknown 131
> 901120 124928 1026047 sd0s2 1 unknown 130
> 1026048 1026048 2052095 sd0s3 3 freebsd 165 <-reverse video
> 2052096 1784 2053879 - 6 unused 0
> 6. type: S set bootable
> 7. type: Q for quit
> 8. then "install Boot Manager for drive sd0?" screen appears,
> choose: None with arrow and then spacebar
> for Leave the master boot record untouched.
> 9. then "FreeBSD Disklabel Editor" Screen appears.
> choose: A for Auto Defaults for All!
> 10. then the screen looks like:
> FreeBSD Disklabel Editor
> disk: sd0 Partition name: sd0s3 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
> Part Mount Size Newfs
> wd0s1 <none> 325MB DOS
> sd0s3a / 32MB UFS Y
> sd0s3b <none> 27MB SWAP
> sd0s3e /var 30MB UFS Y
> sd0s3f /usr 411MB UFS Y
> 11. then, type: Q finish
> 12. then "Choose Distributions" screen appears,
> choose: X-User
> 13. then "XFree86 3.1.2-S distribution" screen appears,
> choose: Basic and select all components with spacebars
> choose: Server, select SVGA, VGA16, Mono
> choose: Fonts, select all fonts
> choose: Exit
> 14. Finally, choose an installation medium
> Install from a FreeBSD cdrom
> 15. then "User Confirmation Requested" screen appears,
> choose: Yes to confirm continuing installation.
> 16. then Information Dialog scrren appears,
.
>> making a new file system on /dev/rsd0a
>> copying initial device files
>> doing newfs -b 8192 -f 2048 -u 2633 /mnt/dev/rsd0s3f
>> doing newfs -b 8192 -f 2048 -u 4096 /mnt/dev/rsd0s3e
>> copying the boot floppy to /stand on root filesystem
>... this all shows that the SCSI disk works OK and no major problems ...
>> Loading root iamge from: cd0a
>> Extracting bin into / directory ....
>> up to about 19%
>> panic: bad dir
>> syncing disk.... 13 13 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 ........giving up
>> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
>> or at other time gives me Message:
>> Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)
>> Unable to transfer the bin distribution from cd0a.
>> do you want to try to retrieve it again? choose yes
>> This happens many times, and i have not had any success yet.
> I presume it's not always exactly 19% ?
Yes, sometimes it went only to 10% sometimes more than that.
>> This happens many times, and i have not had any success yet.
> Try with caches disabled and let us know how you go.
>
ok, i tried your suggestion shown below in the AMIBIOS 1993 "ADVANCE CMOS
SETUP" :
External Cache Memory : Disabled
Internal Cache Memory : Disabled
and this does not solve the problem above.
>--
after Information Dialog of :
Copying the boot floppy to /stand on root filesystem,
i type alt-f2 to show more complete diagnostic, and it shows:
.
.
warning calculated sectors per cylinder (2633) disagress with
disklabel (2048)
/mnt/dev/rsd0s3f 8142560 sectors in 320 cylinders of 1 tracks,
2633 sectors.
411.4 MB in 20 cylinders (16c/g, 20.57MB/g, 2496 i/g)
superblock backup (for fsck -b #) at
......, 800464,
warning calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with
disklabel (2048).
.
.
/mnt/stand/etc/services
1146 bclosk
/mnt: bad dir ino 2 at offset 256: mangled entry
sometime it went further to
/mnt/dev/rsdos3e: 61446 sectors in 15 cylinders of 1 tracks,
4096 sectors
30.0 MB in 1 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00 MB/g, 3840 i/g)
superblock backup (for fsck -b #) at:
.. 32:
.
.
.
DEBUG: request for bin/bin.tgz from CDROM
.
.
/mnt: bad dir ino 181 at offset 639: mangled entry
panic: bad dir
syncing disk.... 13 13 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 ........giving up
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
my guess it may be related to disk geometry, but i do not know what
disk geometry should be used. during novice installation, disk geometry
shown as: 1002 cyl/64hd/32sect.
When i checked micropolis web site, for hp workstation the disktab
shown 1052 MB 512 bytes/secto, 5400 rpm, ns=93, nt=9, nc=1226
and for SUN workstation, ncyl=1998,nhead=9,nsect=114.
is the problem above due to disk geometry?
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