From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 16 23:19:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA17995 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 23:19:15 -0800 Received: from seraph.uunet.ca (uunet.ca [142.77.1.254]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA17985 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 23:19:13 -0800 Received: from portnoy.canrem.com ([198.133.42.17]) by mail.uunet.ca with SMTP id <174671-6>; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 01:01:47 -0500 Received: from canrem.com by portnoy.canrem.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23401; Fri, 17 Feb 95 00:57:26 EST Received: by canrem.com (PCB-UUCP 1.1f) id 1D0781; Fri, 17 Feb 95 00:33:58 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Fatal code=5888 From: barnaby.ng@canrem.com (Barnaby Ng) Message-Id: <60.9779.104.0C1D0781@canrem.com> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 23:53:00 -0500 Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Help, I got a fatal error while trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 from the Walnut Creek CD. Hardware:- - Intel 486DX2-66 - Gigabyte m/b with SIS chipset, Award BIOS - 256K cache, 16MB ram - ATI Mach 64 VL with 2MB VRAM - Adaptec 2842VL (> 1GB bios translation enabled) - Fujitsu 2622FA (330MB) as id0 - Seagate 43400N (2.7GB) as id1 - NEC 84-1 SSCI CD-ROM drive as id3 - Kingston KNE2031+ Ethernet NIC (NE200+ compatible) Partition info:- id0 - 1MB boot manager (OS/2) - 100MB HPFS (OS/2) - 30MB 4.2 BSD (root) id0 - 900MB HPFS - 900MB 4.2 BSD (50MB swap, others /usr) The installation program let me partition and assign my drives, but when I proceed, it gives me the following message:- Fatal Exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code=5888 The debug screen shows:- Progress /dev/rsd0a: 61440 sectors in 30 cylinders of 64 tracks, 32 sectors 30.0 MB in 2 cyl groups (16 c/g, 16.00MB/g, 3840 i/g) Super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, 32832, Progress With a block size of 32768 minimum bytes per inode is 5990 Minimum bytes per inode is 5990 With 16065 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinder per group is 64 This requires the block size to be changed from 8192 to 32768 and the fragment size to be changed from 1024 to 4096 I enabled the >1GB extended bios translation according to advice from Adaptec. If this is causing the problem, I've to low-level format my drives :-(. I can boot to OS/2 again so there is no damage so far, but I want FreeBSD on my system. Any suggestion? % Barnaby Ng % Toronto, Canada % barnaby.ng@canrem.com