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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
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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