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#! rnews 1284 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!unixg.ubc.ca!not-for-mail From: Kyle Schalm <b9g1@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: bad block scan crashes -- help! Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:03:41 -0700 Organization: UBC Computer Science Undergraduate Laboratory Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3351E4DD.41C6@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: yvon.ugl.cs.ubc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39036 during installation of 2.2.1, i select the entire drive (IDE) for FreeBSD use (with no compatibility option) and then select "B" - bad block scan option. after it does the scan, it crashes, printing out "signal 10 caught - that's bad!" and beeping over and over. then there is nothing i can do and i have to reboot. what i want to know is, is this an installation script problem, did i do something wrong, or do i just have a hardware problem? any help is appreciated. please respond by email to b9g1@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca since i don't monitor this newsgroup. thanks!