From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 7: 4:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (mail1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A4937B9C7 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 07:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@rockatronic.com) Received: from rockatronic.com ([24.114.50.29]) by mail1.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000523140427.UVZH416.mail1.rdc3.on.home.com@rockatronic.com>; Tue, 23 May 2000 07:04:27 -0700 Message-ID: <392A8FEB.D82E51D2@rockatronic.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 10:04:27 -0400 From: Mike X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phoneless Cord Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Error mounting /dev/acd0c on /dist during install; can't init. selected medi References: <20000523040028.80101.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had that error once installing on an older (bios) machine. My work-around was to use the two boot floppies (kern & mfsroot) and then choose the cd media from the install menu. Worked fine for me. Phoneless Cord wrote: > > I've searched everywhere, and haven't seen anything that can fix this > problem. > I burned FreeBSD 4 ISO to a CD, then used it to boot a p133 Compaq. It got > through everything fine, fdisk etc, wrote all the file system information > successfully, started the emergency shell on tty4, then gave me: > "Error mounting /dev/acd0c on /dist: Input/output error(5)" > After that, it gave me: > "Unable to initialize selected media." > Any help/ideas would be appreciated. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message