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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!pmlss4!bmyers From: bmyers@asd470.dseg.ti.com (Bob Myers) Subject: Still get: BOGUS SUPER BLOCK - FreeBSD Message-ID: <1993Oct11.125931.11893@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Sender: usenet@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: pmlss4.dseg.ti.com Reply-To: bmyers@asd470.dseg.ti.com Organization: Texas Instruments Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 12:59:31 GMT Lines: 28 I've tried to install the EPSILON FreeBSD package last night, and failed yet once again. I'm trying to install this on 486-25 mhz system (DTK machine), that has 12 mb ram/ 340 mb ESDI & UltraStor 12F/Adaptec 1542c with Archive 525e tape and a 320 mb hard drive attached. I'm only trying to load to the esdi drive (340 mb). I've been able to use this drive, even though it has about 18 bad spots scattered, with Linux for the last 5 months. (this has been my "spare" drive for linux; most of Linux is on my 676 mb ESDI drive). However, there seems to be a problem with installing this FreeBSD. I boot off of the Adaptec-based boot floppy, since I will be using my tape drive to load most of the system. When asked about sector remapping, i tell the installation script 'no'; I don't have this ability turned on with my Ultrastor card. During the file system creation process, it finds a number of bad spots, but even still -- prior to copying files to the newly created file system, I see a new message concerning a disk write problem and a BOGUS SUPER BLOCK message. When I get to the point of copying the kernel to the hard drive, the system tells me that it cannot do the copy. Not sure why...but then it also issues a halt on it's own. One minor thing that might be causing me a problem; I'm using the Linux fdisk parameters for the hard drive. Should I be using these, or should I really get the *REAL* parameters from my Ultrastor's setup menu for this drive? -bob