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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4gb1mu$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4fg2f7$dp9@madeline.ins.cwru.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 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. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)