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From: davidt@qualcomm.com (Dave Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 - newfs troubles.
Date: 12 Jan 1995 13:18:38 -0700
Organization: QUALCOMM, Incorporated; San Diego, CA, USA
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I have been having my share of trouble installing FreeBSD Release 2.0
on my machine. I have FreeBSD 2.0 on CD from Walnut Creek and am
using Jordan Hubbard's installation notes. After booting from floppy
everything goes along fine -- I select Install, Fdisk and Disklabel my
disk -- and then the installation program tries to run:
newfs /dev/rsd0a.
At this point, newfs dies and the installation program reports:
Exec(/stand/newfs) failed, code=5888
This is not exactly the world's most helpful information, but perhaps
somebody out there has seen this before? The only things I can think
of are that the boot floppy wasn't written quite correctly or that
perhaps I have my SCSI disk geometry - h:255 c:255 s:63 - set wrong.
(Disk geometry on a SCSI seems to be faked by the controller anyway.)
Does this seem plausible to any of you knowledgeable folks out there?
Any advice or other suggestions?
thanks,
dave thompson
PC config: 486 DX250, AHA1542CF w/Quantum 2GB disk which FreeBSD bootstrap
reports to be h:12 s:112 c:3053.
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