Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:51:21 +0900 (JST) From: Dave Nakamoto (Systems Administrator) <ddt@kkktok21.kline.co.jp> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: help can not load freebsd 2.1.6 Message-ID: <199702130351.MAA13543@kline.co.jp> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970213165902.11621B@mother.cdrom.com>
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Hi, I hope you can help me with this ... On my system I run both freebsd 2.1.5 and ms-dos 6.2 /v (a bi-lingual Japanese/English DOS) . A couple of days ago I picked up a copy of 2.1.6 RELEASE and set out to install After creating the freebsd slice (one i1.2G slice on a Western Digital 1.2G IDE HD) and setting the partitions I commited the install. The drive acted like it was timing out cycling on/off (drive access light) in @ 5 sec intervals, I let the installation go on overnite and still did not complete ! looking at the output screen it said it was backing up superblocks and doing some sort of fsck (I never saw this before in my 2.0.5, 2.1, or 2.1.5 installs). At the same time I replaced my motherboard ( a Microstar) and upgraded my CPU and DOS to IBM DOS 7.0/J. The net effect of the DOS upgrade was it broke the booteasy boot manager. at this time I managed to get 2.1.6 installed once, but when I tried to boot off the hard drive it returned an error message: "invalid format" (note the only way I could get the install to work was to get an old version of MS-DOS 5.0 loaded, run fdisk (5.0) and format (5.0) on the 1.2G drive simply using fdisk to remove the "Non-DOS" partition and re-installing (2.1.6) as I have successfully done with all the other versions of freebsd did not work. So I reinstalled 2.1.5 and found booteasy was still broken, It gave me two choices: F1 DOS F5 disk2 selecting F5 hung my PC. To get freebsd up I had to boot from floppy, boot: 1:wd(1,a)/kernel (this generated an error msg saying not found) then enter return at the boot prompt again boot: \n this would boot the kernel on the hd. I found that after I reverted back to MS-DOS 6.2 /v (removing the IBM product) the booteasy boot manager now works correctly. Sorry for rambling on here but, back to the remaining problem, any ideas why I cannot get a good 2.1.6 install to work ? My hardware: Gigabyte 586hx motherboard 16M 60ns EDO RAM Intel Pentium 100M CPU Conner 515M hd (DOS drive C) Western Digital 1.2G hd (freebsd) Adaptic 1542cf SCSI card Sony 4x SCSi hd (forgot the model number ) nextcom ISA ethernet card (NE200 clone ) USR sportster 28K modem (internal set to com2/sio1) ATI PCI vidio card (expression 2MB dram) Musicquest ISA MIDI card I really would like to run 2.1.6 but for now after five (or so) aborted installs I'm going to re-install 2.1.5 and at least I'll have a working system. As I said any suggestoins would be greatly appreciated. Oh and I almost forgot, can tell me which patches I need to apply to clear up the latest CERT notice about crt.0 on 2.1.5 and (whistfully) 2.1.6 ? Please send your responses to my private e-mail addr if you can. Thank you Dave Nakamoto ddt@gol.com (private) ddt@kline.co.jp (work)
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