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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!doc.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: nichols@doc.cc.utexas.edu (Stewart Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R installation problem Date: 30 Dec 1994 19:03:59 -0600 Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas Lines: 69 Message-ID: <3e2alv$r58@doc.cc.utexas.edu> References: <D1HrAD.3tu@space.physics.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: doc.cc.utexas.edu In article <D1HrAD.3tu@space.physics.uiowa.edu>, Larry Granroth <ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu> wrote: [install breaks at /stand/sysinstall. The original message is included at the end of this post (part of it, anyway)] Not only did my floppy install break on the 3.5 drive, it broke when I tried to do the install from the 5-1/4. This made me very suspicious. I tried EVERY boot floppy, including the Dec22 boots. Mine, also, had installed flawlessly with the same equipment for NetBSD09 and FreeBSD 1.1.5.1. I downloaded to two different PCs to make the boot floppies, using two different methods (pathworks and ftp). Broke with both. SO, I decided to try using the floppies ON THE PC WHERE I CREATED THEM, and quickly found that it WORKED as I happily trashed my second DOS drive on that machine (no regrets). I yanked the harddrive from the machine that was failing and put it on the PC where I had created the floppies. It worked first time (I made a couple of others to assure myself it wasn't a fluke). The machine where it worked is a 386DX33 AMD, and the one where it didn't was a 386DX40AMD (some timing difference???). (I was completely unable to get anything to work on either machine when using the MBR (b)oot option. I had to go back to dos and do an FDISK/MBR on those drives to get rid of the boot routines.) If any team member wants more details, email me at: nichols_sa@binky.capnet.state.tx.us stuart nichols ****** original posting included below. my experiences were essentially identical to those of the original poster's: >After trying every combination of boot floppy images, swapping floppy >drives, trying different diskettes, pulling extra boards out, swapping >different hard drives in to install on, etc., my attempt at installing >FreeBSD 2.0R on my pc keeps failing at the same point. (The system was >formerly running NetBSD 0.9 and NetBSD 1.0 also installs without any >trouble.) > >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? > >larry-granroth@uiowa.edu