From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 28 17:51:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA27838 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:51:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lserver.infoworld.com (lserver.infoworld.com [192.216.48.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA27823 Thu, 28 Mar 1996 17:51:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccgate.infoworld.com by lserver.infoworld.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #12) id m0u2Tdu-000wtoC; Thu, 28 Mar 96 18:10 PST Received: from cc:Mail by ccgate.infoworld.com id AA828064224; Thu, 28 Mar 96 18:27:44 PST Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 18:27:44 PST From: "Brett Glass" Message-Id: <9602288280.AA828064224@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: "Brett Glass" , gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Partitioning with DOS does get rid of the geometry rejection problem. (Though, for some reason, fdisk sets the geometry to 1/1/1 as I partition and I have to reset it. This is apparently a bug.) However, I still had problems. This time, instead of freezing, the system brought up a dialogue box with the message: Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1536 bytes) On VTY2, The system showed: pid 32: gunzip: uid 0: exited on signal 11 pid 31: cpio: uid 0: exited on signal 11 (I don't remember my UNIX signals that well, but I seem to recall that signal 11 is SIGTERM.) The last file copied (it varies from run to run) was kernel.GENERIC. Trying to continue the install returned additional "wrote -1 bytes of X bytes" messages. RAM tests good. About the only other thing I could try replacing is the disk drive. Unfortunately, I don't have another to replace it with.... --Brett