From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 17 06:35:34 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA11246 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 06:35:34 -0800 Received: from ibmPCUG.CO.UK (mmdf@Alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK [192.68.174.71]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA11237 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 06:35:26 -0800 From: jake@ibmPCUG.CO.UK Received: from kate.ibmpcug.co.uk by alice.ibmPCUG.CO.UK id aa18973; 17 Feb 95 14:15 GMT Subject: Re: Fatal code=5888 To: Barnaby Ng Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 14:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <60.9779.104.0C1D0781@canrem.com> from "Barnaby Ng" at Feb 16, 95 11:53:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 699 Message-ID: <9502171414.aa12295@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk> 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:- > - Adaptec 2842VL (> 1GB bios translation enabled) > 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 Aha! I had this same message with 950202, I have a PCI AHA2940. Trying using the 950210-SNAP it sort of works for me. the sort of means that I have a boot problem which is being worked on (Thanks Justin!) Your best bet would be to install without scsi from the CD then grab the sys.a? kernsrc stuff from the latest SNAP and rebuild Regards, Jake Dias PC User Group