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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:14:47 -0400
From:      Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot install FreeBSD-current 9/10 and 9/17 from floppies
Message-ID:  <20020917231447.A2256@attbi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020917205339.A1596@attbi.com>; from rodrigc@attbi.com on Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:53:39PM -0400
References:  <20020917205339.A1596@attbi.com>

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Hi,

Just to follow up, I tried a few other floppy images, and
succeeded with the floppy images that are part of the 8/31 -CURRENT 
snapshot.  I can't figure out what the problem was with the newer
floppy images.

-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
rodrigc@attbi.com

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:53:39PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I bought a second machine to install FreeBSD-current, so that
> I can learn how to do kernel debugging via a serial cable.
> I cannot install FreeBSD-current on this machine.
> The machine is an IBM PIII-450
> 
> Here is what I did:
> 
> (1) Obtained kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppy images from the 
>     9/17 and 9/10 snapshots of FreeBSD-current.
>     I obtained these from ftp://current.freebsd.org/
> 
> (2) After booting from the first floppy (kern.flp), I insert 
>     mfsroot.flp.
> 
> The install hangs at:
> 
> ===========================================================================
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
> md0c: raw partition size != slice size
> md0c: start 0, end 5087, size 5088
> md0c: truncating raw partition
> md0c: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice
> md0c: start 0, end 5087, size 5088
> md0ca: start 0, end 8639, size 8640
> spec_getpages: (md0c) I/O read failure:
>        (error=22) bp 0x2031dc vp 0xc0e39000 size: 4096 resid: 4096,
>        a_count: 4096
>        valid: 0x0 nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 575, pcount: 1
> ===========================================================================
> 
> Any ideas what the cause of this is?  I tried disabling things like
> PNP in the BIOS, but that didn't fix anything.  I had the same problems
> with the 9/17 and 9/10 floppy images.   
> -- 
> Craig Rodrigues        
> http://www.gis.net/~craigr    
> rodrigc@attbi.com
> 
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