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From: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth)
Subject: FreeBSD 2.0R installation problem
Message-ID: <D1HrAD.3tu@space.physics.uiowa.edu>
Organization: The University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 22:47:01 GMT
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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