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From: brent@vivid.net (Brent "Weasel" Wiese) Subject: Re: bad block scan crashes -- help! Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:48:41 GMT Message-ID: <33578c84.14731743@news.vivid.net> References: <3351E4DD.41C6@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99f/32.299 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Lines: 20 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.65.48.7!news.vivid.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39245 On Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:03:41 -0700, Kyle Schalm <b9g1@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote: >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! I had a similar problem and it turned out the IDE controller on the motherboard was bad... Brent