From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 13 07:34:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA05151 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 07:34:55 -0800 Received: from POSC.org (posc.org [192.246.215.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA05145 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 07:34:52 -0800 Received: from posc.posc.org (posc.posc.org [192.246.215.30]) by POSC.org (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA24347; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:34:37 -0600 Received: from sys14.posc.org (sys14.posc.org [192.246.215.69]) by posc.posc.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA09547; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:34:35 -0600 Received: by sys14.posc.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02603; Mon, 13 Feb 95 09:34:33 CST Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 09:34:33 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Waddell X-Sender: waddell@sys14 To: Jon Cargille Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installation problem (2.0): exec failed? In-Reply-To: <9502090430.AA04848@grilled.cs.wisc.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I had the same problem with a DOS partition on the first part of the disk. The only solution I had was to dedicate the whole disk to FreeBSD. I concluded it was due to the disk sector translation scheme. On Wed, 8 Feb 1995, Jon Cargille wrote: > > Has anyone run across this sort of installation problem before? > > Someone I know says he got the following error (followed by a reboot) > after fdisk/disklabelling, and proceeding with the installation: > > exec(stand/newfs) failed code=5888. > > Here's his system description: > > >Platform : > > 486/80 + 16MB Ram > > 1542b adaptec with a 1.6G Micropolis > > single speed mitsumi :( > > IDE with 1.6G Microp > > > >FreeBSD is intended to go onto partition 2 of the SCSI (ie sda2 in linux > >terms). The German Linux is on sda1 > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks a lot, > > Jon > ========================================================================== | Dave Waddell | Disclaimer - I don't even speak for myself | | waddell@posc.org | | | kb5wxe@kb5wxe.ampr.org | + 1 713 267 5103 | ==========================================================================