From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 17 20:14:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F72037B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:14:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.61.41.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0268643E86 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:14:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@attbi.com) Received: from dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost.ne.attbi.com [127.0.0.1]) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8I3Emin002273 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:14:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rodrigc@dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by dibbler.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8I3ElYb002272 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:14:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:14:47 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot install FreeBSD-current 9/10 and 9/17 from floppies Message-ID: <20020917231447.A2256@attbi.com> References: <20020917205339.A1596@attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020917205339.A1596@attbi.com>; from rodrigc@attbi.com on Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:53:39PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Just to follow up, I tried a few other floppy images, and succeeded with the floppy images that are part of the 8/31 -CURRENT snapshot. I can't figure out what the problem was with the newer floppy images. -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr rodrigc@attbi.com On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:53:39PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a second machine to install FreeBSD-current, so that > I can learn how to do kernel debugging via a serial cable. > I cannot install FreeBSD-current on this machine. > The machine is an IBM PIII-450 > > Here is what I did: > > (1) Obtained kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppy images from the > 9/17 and 9/10 snapshots of FreeBSD-current. > I obtained these from ftp://current.freebsd.org/ > > (2) After booting from the first floppy (kern.flp), I insert > mfsroot.flp. > > The install hangs at: > > =========================================================================== > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > md0c: raw partition size != slice size > md0c: start 0, end 5087, size 5088 > md0c: truncating raw partition > md0c: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > md0c: start 0, end 5087, size 5088 > md0ca: start 0, end 8639, size 8640 > spec_getpages: (md0c) I/O read failure: > (error=22) bp 0x2031dc vp 0xc0e39000 size: 4096 resid: 4096, > a_count: 4096 > valid: 0x0 nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 575, pcount: 1 > =========================================================================== > > Any ideas what the cause of this is? I tried disabling things like > PNP in the BIOS, but that didn't fix anything. I had the same problems > with the 9/17 and 9/10 floppy images. > -- > Craig Rodrigues > http://www.gis.net/~craigr > rodrigc@attbi.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message