Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:05:10 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Claus Guttesen <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> Cc: ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems loading FreeBSD 5.2 on HP-RX2600 Message-ID: <20040115020510.GB25558@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20040114172357.55663.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com> References: <200401140958.21543.mark.heaton@hp.com> <20040114172357.55663.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:23:57PM +0100, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > really do want to install to the disk I get the > > following errors: > > > > ERROR: Unable to write data to disk da0! > > Couldn't make filesystem properly. Aborting. > > I can't help you, I can only verify that I have the > same error as you mention. (Hi Mark :-) The problem is very likely an uninitialized variable in the installer. After the Protective MBR has been written to the disk (this should be verifiable) the function bogusly returns a non-zero value which aborts the operation. Unfortunately there's no work-around for it, other than of course to pre-partition the disk. I have a fix in the pipeline, but it also means I have to build a new snapshot and I really want to test it first :-) This is typically a bug that you normally catch by testing the BETAs and release candidates (RCs). I didn't get any reports and I didn't had a chance to test it myself (I didn't had a spare disk that I could clobber). CALL TO ARMS: to avoid this in the future, we need people who can and will test the BETAs and RCs. At a minimum it should be possible to do an install and end up with a (sufficiently) functioning OS. It doesn't take a lot of work to help out: keep an eye on announcements, download the corresponding ISO image, burn it to CD and perform an install. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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