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Subject: Fatal code=5888
From: barnaby.ng@canrem.com (Barnaby Ng)
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 95 08:43:00 -0500
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Help, I got a fatal error while trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 from
the Walnut Creek CD. Hardware:-
- Intel 486DX2-66
- Gigabyte m/b with SIS chipset, Award BIOS
- 256K cache, 16MB ram
- ATI Mach 64 VL with 2MB VRAM
- Adaptec 2842VL (> 1GB bios translation enabled)
- Fujitsu 2622FA (330MB) as id0
- Seagate 43400N (2.7GB) as id1
- NEC 84-1 SSCI CD-ROM drive as id3
- Kingston KNE2031+ Ethernet NIC (NE200+ compatible)
Partition info:-
id0 - 1MB boot manager (OS/2)
- 100MB HPFS (OS/2)
- 30MB 4.2 BSD (root)
id0 - 900MB HPFS
- 900MB 4.2 BSD (50MB swap, others /usr)
The installation program let me partition and assign my drives, but
when I proceed, it gives me the following message:-
Fatal
Exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code=5888
The debug screen shows:-
Progress <newfs /dev/rsd0a>
/dev/rsd0a: 61440 sectors in 30 cylinders of 64 tracks, 32 sectors
30.0 MB in 2 cyl groups (16 c/g, 16.00MB/g, 3840 i/g)
Super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 32832,
Progress <Newfs/dev/rsd1f>
With a block size of 32768 minimum bytes per inode is 5990
Minimum bytes per inode is 5990
With 16065 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinder per group is 64
This requires the block size to be changed from 8192 to 32768 and
the fragment size to be changed from 1024 to 4096
I enabled the >1GB extended bios translation according to advice
from Adaptec. If this is causing the problem, I've to low-level
format my drives :-(. I can boot to OS/2 again so there is no damage
so far, but I want FreeBSD on my system. Any suggestion?
% Barnaby Ng
% Toronto, Canada
% barnaby.ng@canrem.com