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From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Fatal code=5888
To: barnaby.ng@canrem.com (Barnaby Ng)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:26:08 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <60.9779.104.0C1D0781@canrem.com> from "Barnaby Ng" at Feb 16, 95 11:53:00 pm
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> 
> 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)

You must tell FreeBSD's fdisk program that you are using 255/63
translation.  Otherwise, it will not place the partitions in the
right place.  Read the manual that came with your adaptec about
what extended translation is, and you will understand.

> 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 <newfs /dev/rsd0a>
> /dev/rsd0a: 61440 sectors in 30 cylinders of 64 tracks, 32 sectors
				should be 255/63
>      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 <Newfs/dev/rsd1f>
> 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?
> 

Tell FreeBSD's fdisk program what the translation is, and it will be
happy.

> 
> %  Barnaby Ng
> %  Toronto, Canada
> %  barnaby.ng@canrem.com
> 


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Justin T. Gibbs
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