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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.0 install problem: newfs of root fs fails
Date: 19 Feb 1996 23:39:10 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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mak@po.CWRU.Edu (Mike Kukura) writes:

>   Unable to make root filesystem on /dev/rwd0a!
>   Command returned status 136

Umm.  136 == 128 + 8, means some command (newfs?) did exit with a
signal 8, ``floating point exception''.  Most likely a division by
zero.

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cheers, J"org

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