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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!usenet.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!piaget.moe.ac.sg!raffles.technet.sg!news.np.ac.sg!ngps From: ngps@np.ac.sg (Ng Pheng Siong) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R installation problem Date: 30 Dec 1994 03:36:33 GMT Organization: Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Lines: 48 Message-ID: <3dvv81$3ps@nova.np.ac.sg> References: <D1HrAD.3tu@space.physics.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.np.ac.sg In article <D1HrAD.3tu@space.physics.uiowa.edu>, Larry Granroth <ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu> wrote: >The fdisk and disklabel seem to go fine and then the newfs and mount >phases look okay, but then during (or at the end of) the "unzip >/stand/sysinstall" there appears to be a hard floppy read error. >The message is spewed onto the "progress" screen (not on the "alt-F2" >screen): > > recal failed S >T0 80<invld> cyl >fd0c: hard error T1 1<no_am> S >T2 0 cyl 53 hd 0 s > >zcat: stdin: Input/output error > >The "copy /kernel /mnt/kernel" appears to succeed. >After this, the configuration still looks fine booting the kernel from >the hard drive, but "exec /stand/sysinstall" fails with "error 8" and >"init: not found" and "panic: no init". > >Help! Any suggestions? I have run into exactly this error. My machine is a HP Vectra 486/SX. FreeBSD 1.x installed (almost) fine. I'm told the error might be in the floppy driver. Since I have 2.0 working on another system and am supping regularly, I built a kernel for myself with a higher number of retries in the floppy driver in case of error. Booted the thing and the number of the error messages were even more. I just supped the kernel sources again last night - no change in the floppy driver code. I'm now thinking of making a bootable floppy that runs the real init and a shell to see if I can mount the hd and muck around. Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> says he overcame similar problems by using another floppy controller. ;) You may want to try that. I don't have an extra floppy controller, so if all else fails I'll be trying NetBSD instead. The machine I'm installing on is intended to be the smartass sendmail for my site, so either BSD is fine. (I prefer FreeBSD tho. ;) Good luck. And if you fix your problems, please do tell how. - PS -- Ng Pheng Siong * ngps@np.ac.sg * (65) 460 6769 Computer Centre, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore