From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 24 08:35:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA11950 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 08:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kabutham.cri.co.in ([206.103.12.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA11918 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 08:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kabutham.cri.co.in with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BC50F2.BABD5810@kabutham.cri.co.in>; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 21:01:50 +0530 Message-ID: From: Sethuraman To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Clarification on IDE harddisk addition in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 21:01:48 +0530 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Gentlemen I would like to have clarification on the following issue on harddisk addition on FreeBSD ver 2.1.5 After installation of FreeBSD, when i am trying add additional harddisk[IDE] via " /stand/sysinstall" i.e after Completing Disk Partitioning and Labelling of the additional harddisk , when the kernel is trying to copy initial files, it exits with error "Segmentation fault Core dumped" . I had tried in a new machine also but the same error re-appears there also. H/W :- Pentium-100MHz/32MB RAM/850MB IDE /SVGA O/S :- FreeBSD ver 2.1.5 [August 1996] Pls provide me the detailed procedure Thanks Sethu