Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 18:18:13 -0700 (MST) From: connie@primenet.com (connie crowley) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Installation bug REPLY: dan.early@mail.sprint.com or connie@primenet.com Message-ID: <199806040118.SAA01145@smtp01.primenet.com>
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>From: Early_Dan/OM50@atopmp01.corp.sprint.com >X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 >Priority: Urgent >Importance: High >Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 08:16:24 -0500 >Subject: RE: Installation bug REPLY: dan.early@mail.sprint.com or connie@primenet.com >TO: connie@primenet.com >X-UIDL: eb29092ce742484f60f6f23e5ebfb8d7 >X-Status: > > > > ---------- > From: Dan Early > Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 8:19 AM > To: 'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org' > Subject: Installation bug REPLY: dan.early@mail.sprint.com or > connie@primenet.com > Importance: High > > I sent the below a week ago. Since then gave up on the pc, put > Windows on it and gave it to my wife. I tried making a small dos > partition and putting BSD on the rest of the drive. All the tricks > mentioned in the book. Same results as below. But I'm planning on > building a new pc with an smp board, onboard scsi controller & > several fancy options. I'd still like to load BSD on this machine, so > if there is anything I did wrong below I'd still like to know what it > was. I decided to try BSD at the recommendation of a friend here who > is on your development list. At this point it's not looking very > good. How 'bout a reply? > > ---------- > From: Dan Early > Sent: Thursday, May 21, 1998 12:14 PM > To: 'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org' > Subject: Installation bug > Importance: High > > I recently bought a copy of "Free BSD." It is a commonly sold > installation package with 4 CDs and a book. I have been unable to > install it. To date, the book & CDs has cost me about $55, plus > over $300 in new hardware. While I have never used BSD much, I know > enough UNIX to have installed Solaris (for example) some 50 times > maybe. > > This system is a Pentium 166, 32 Meg RAM, BTC IDE 24X CD drive, > Conner 540 (?) Meg IDE with 1048/16/1048/63 geometry. Graphics from > a Trident 512K card. It uses an onboard IDE controller. The > installation described below has also been tried with a second IDE > drive, a Maxtor 200 Meg IDE with the same results. Both of these > drives have previously had Linux loaded without any problem. > > Bios is Award P&P v1.0A. It is set to autoconfigure the drive and > recognized the IDE drive as a secondary master at 540 Meg, etc. on > boot. This formats to 515 Meg, I understand because of having > greater than 1024 cylinders. The CD drive is recognized at boot and > the installation boots from the CD without any apparent problem. > > Configuring the kernal, I delete SCSI drivers, ethernet drivers and > other drivers I am not presently using. > > At the setup screen, I note that the release name is 2.2.5, and I > set it to debug, source from the CD drive. > > I do a custom installation. The partions show two: the first from > block 0-63, unused, the second taking the rest of the disk > dedicated to BSD, and set bootable. The numbers for this show as 63 > 1056321 1056381 wd2s1 Ptype=3 freebsd 165. The drive geometry does > show as 1048/16/63. I accept the default newfs options. > > For boot managers, I have tried setting it to install both a FBSD > boot manager and not install any. > > Label: > > I accept defaults for size. This produces the following: > > wds1a / 32 M UFS Y > wd2s1f swap 73 M > wd2s1e /var 30 M UFS Y > wd2s1f /usr 379M UFS Y > > I install the kernal-developer version. I install no other > packages. On accepting this, the installation begins and I do an > Alt-F4 to go to a shell, and Alt F2 to watch the installation > process. I do a df when it completes. This produces: > > root_dev 2495 96% / > /dev/wd2a 46% /mnt > /dev/wd2s1f 19% /mnt/usr > /dev/wd2s1e 0% /mnt/var > wdc0c 100% /dist > > I can see /kernal is copied to / > > On rebooting the machine, it does a probe to assorted devices, > sends a "panic, can't mount /" message and goes into a reboot > cycle. If I try giving it a specific boot command, such as "boot: > 1:wd(2,a)?" or many variations of that, it either says it can't > find it or it returns an "error [memory address]" in an infinite > loop. > > I have tried variations on this installation numerous times from > the CD and also from a diskette boot image. It always fails the > same way. I gave the CD to a friend here at work, who put it on a > partition on his PC. It installed normally for him. > > Any suggestions appreciated. Please reply e-mail to either: > connie@primenet.com or Dan.early@mail.sprint.com. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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