Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 18:15:54 +1000 From: Hugh Blandford <hugh@island.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Unable to make root filesystem. Help please Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970611181554.006e6d94@mail.island.net.au>
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Hi All, I've had a harrowing day. I have been trying to install FBSD 2.1.6.1 on a machine without luck. I having been getting signal 11s and I'm dead messages all day. Having replaced the main memory all the network cards and the IDE controller, floppy drive and the CPU I have finally got to the stage where the machine is dying at a consistent point. I am trying to install via FTP from one of my other FBSD boxes. On the main screen I end up with the following messages: Unable to make root filesystem on /dev/rwd0a Command returned status 139 Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting On the debug screen I get the following: Network initialized successfully Scanning disk wd0 for root filesystem Scanning disk wd0 for swap partitions pid 24 (newfs), uid 0: exited on signal 11 uid 0 on /: file system full Memory fault Switching...... This is a 1.2Gb Seagate Medalist drive with a 15Mb DOS partition on the front of it. The couple of utilities that I have in the DOS partition work fine. Could this be a motherboard problem? Is this a disk problem? I know DOS doesn't do much but would formating the whole disk for DOS and trying to write to it that way be any good? I'm very stuck and would appreciate any suggestions. Hugh. PS this box is supposed to be budget item, so suggesting that I throw it away and buy x isn't really the answer that I'm after. Replacing faulty hardware is fine ;-)
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