From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 26 23:35:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from web12802.mail.yahoo.com (web12802.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4BAF37B405 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 23:35:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from prohit99@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010827063549.32524.qmail@web12802.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.142.70.159] by web12802.mail.yahoo.com; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 23:35:49 PDT Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 23:35:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Rohit Panda Subject: installation problem To: jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com, mertz@gnosis.cx Cc: lee@uk.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-829094587-998894149=:32478" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0-829094587-998894149=:32478 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii hi , i was using linux and a great fan of it.Then i heard about this wonderful OS called FreeBSD and wanted to try it out.i thought to install it via FTP. My E: drive in my windows machine is the place where i want to install FreeBSD(i have formatted my E: ,but iam getting the chance to fdisk because Sysinstall is not running). But iam facing a problem during installation.i have made the images of the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp from windows using the utility fdimage.Then i booted from the kernel image floppy .Everything goes fine and after that when i put the other floppy and hit enter it says " zf_read:unexpected EOF ". Then it continues with the kernel configuration.Once i teied to configure and the next time i skipped,but after that comes the problem.after it probes it says Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c md0:raw partition size != slice size md0:start 0,end 7,size 8 md0c:start 0,end 5759,size 5760 md0:truncating raw partition md0:start 0,end 7,size 8 md0:start 0,end 5759,size 5760 Root Mount failed :22 manual root filesystem specification :device Mount using filesystem eg.ufs:/dev/da0s1a ? list valid disk boot devices abort manual i/p THEN WHEN IT COMES TO THE PROMPT....... mountroot> NOW IF I HIT ENTER panic :root mount failed ,startup aborted . syncing disks done uptime:11m 8 s Automatic reboot in 15 secs....... how do i correct the problem.Sysinstall is not starting and how to go about it.if u could help me i will be very grateful to u.otherwise tell me some alternate methords to do. thanking u in advance rohit --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $0.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger. --0-829094587-998894149=:32478 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

hi ,

    i was using linux and a great fan of it.Then i heard about this wonderful OS called FreeBSD and wanted to try it out.i thought to install it via FTP. My E: drive in my windows machine is the place where i want to install FreeBSD(i have formatted my E: ,but iam getting the chance to fdisk because Sysinstall is not running). But iam facing a problem during installation.i have made the images of the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp from windows using the utility fdimage.Then i booted from the kernel image floppy .Everything goes fine and after that when i put the other floppy and hit enter it says " zf_read:unexpected EOF ". Then it continues with the kernel configuration.Once i teied to configure and the next time i skipped,but after that comes the problem.after it probes it says

Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c

md0:raw partition size != slice size

md0:start 0,end 7,size 8

md0c:start 0,end 5759,size 5760

md0:truncating raw partition

md0:start 0,end 7,size 8

md0:start 0,end 5759,size 5760

Root Mount failed :22

manual root filesystem specification

<fstype>:device Mount <device> using filesystem<fstype>

eg.ufs:/dev/da0s1a

? list valid disk boot devices

<empty line> abort manual i/p

THEN WHEN IT COMES TO THE PROMPT.......

mountroot> NOW IF I HIT ENTER

panic :root mount failed ,startup aborted .

syncing disks

done uptime:11m 8 s

Automatic reboot in 15 secs.......

how do i correct the problem.Sysinstall is not starting and how to go about it.if u could help me i will be very grateful to u.otherwise tell me some alternate methords to do.

thanking u in advance

rohit


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