Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 16:51:10 -0400 From: media@ct1.nai.net To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: john253@crosswinds.net Subject: Re: install from 4.1 CDROM failed Message-ID: <v03130304b5fe63bee23d@[209.150.38.76]> In-Reply-To: <onnctso6q4eta52c7n9dqnjt75nrhdh3r3@4ax.com> References: <v03130301b5fba6258620@[209.150.34.18]> <NCBBIPDEFKONHLOLAMEOEEDJCDAA.emag2@emag1.com> <v03130301b5fba6258620@[209.150.34.18]>
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At 1:06 AM +0100 10/01/00, John Murphy wrote:
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>That sounds very recent for a CD, so there shouldn't be a problem.
Thank you very much for your response. A recent master can still be bad,
and a good master can still create a bad replicant. However, I want to
explore other possible causes before I return the CD-ROM to Walnut Creek.
>None of which should have been necessary.
>Newfs'ing the slice should've sufficed.
That's what I thought, but I decided to erase it under DOS just to make
sure. At this point the disk has been erased and reformatted several times.
>Was the '3.4 install on an Extended DOS partition?
It wasn't on an Extended DOS partition because I had not previously
formatted it as such, but it was on the same physical space on the drive.
I'm thinking if 3.4 installed, then 4.1 should install.
>Slightly less likely to have problems with primary partitions, though '4.1
>seems to interpret them ok. I keep thinking there may be a problem with
>your BIOS and a large drive, but then '3.4 worked so it can't be that.
It's only a 3G drive.
>>The 4.1 installer seems a bit different from the 3.4. Where did the bad
>>block scan go?? The flag is described on the help page (F1), but the
>>command is not listed.
>
>I don't remember seeing or needing that. Perhaps these bad blocks are the
>problem.
Perhaps, although I don't remember the 3.4 install finding any bad blocks.
I wonder why they removed the bad block scan for 4.1.
>Providing "/" is at ad0s2a ('ad' is the FreeBSD-4.x IDE driver, superseding
>the old wd (Western Digital) driver of FreeBSD-3.x fame; '0' is the master
>>of the first IDE port; 's2' is the second slice and 'a' is the first
>partition where "/" should be. I think I would always put "/" first >though.
It failed no matter what I put first. Regardless the installer always
seems to make "/" ad0s2a.
>You need Newfs if you want to replace the old file system. I guess...
Right, I had it set active.
>It may be that re-formatting was un-necessary until you DOS formatted it.
>The process is probably quicker with '4.1: Memory of the relative speed of
>something is an insignificant symptom.
Good point!!
>Sorry to not have pin-pointed the problem but I need more facts.
>How big is it ferinstance.
It is 3G. I think finding out what "panic: lockmgr: non-zero exclusive
count" means may be the at the heart of a solution. I will post a separate
question.
>PS: You said "FreeBSD CD-ROM" singular. The last I bought was '3.2 and it
>was four disks. Has this changed?
You are correct. If you buy FreeBSD on it's own or with _The Complete
FreeBSD_ you receive 4 CD-ROMS. If you opt to buy the CD that comes with
_The FreeBSD Hanbook_, you only get one CD-ROM.
Thanks again for your help.
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