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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!mak From: mak@po.CWRU.Edu (Mike Kukura) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.1.0 install problem: newfs of root fs fails Date: 9 Feb 1996 18:06:31 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4fg2f7$dp9@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: mak@po.CWRU.Edu (Mike Kukura) NNTP-Posting-Host: roo.ins.cwru.edu I have just tried installing the 2.1.0 release on my home system. It is a 486 with 3 IDE drives. I have one DOS partition and one FreeBSD partion on each of the 3 drives. When I try to install the system, I get the following error shortly after committing to the install: Unable to make root filesystem on /dev/rwd0a! Command returned status 136 I have tried installing from a second boot floppy, and have also tried installing the root filesystem on a different hard disk, but still had the same problems. The boot loader was installed and the FreeBSD partitions were made, but that is as far as the installation procedure goes. I don't know if this matters, but I previously had linux partitions on two of the disk drives, and had the "lilo" boot loader installed. During the installation, I deleted these partitions and created FreeBSD partitons in their place. -- Mike Kukura -- (mak@po.CWRU.Edu) Information Network Services Case Western Reserve University