Hi, Just to follow up, I tried a few other floppy images, and succeeded with the floppy images that are part of the 8/31 -CURRENT snapshot. I can't figure out what the problem was with the newer floppy images.
-- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:53:39PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a second machine to install FreeBSD-current, so that > I can learn how to do kernel debugging via a serial cable. > I cannot install FreeBSD-current on this machine. > The machine is an IBM PIII-450 > > Here is what I did: > > (1) Obtained kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppy images from the > 9/17 and 9/10 snapshots of FreeBSD-current. > I obtained these from ftp://current.freebsd.org/ > > (2) After booting from the first floppy (kern.flp), I insert > mfsroot.flp. > > The install hangs at: > > =========================================================================== > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c > md0c: raw partition size != slice size > md0c: start 0, end 5087, size 5088 > md0c: truncating raw partition > md0c: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > md0c: start 0, end 5087, size 5088 > md0ca: start 0, end 8639, size 8640 > spec_getpages: (md0c) I/O read failure: > (error=22) bp 0x2031dc vp 0xc0e39000 size: 4096 resid: 4096, > a_count: 4096 > valid: 0x0 nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 575, pcount: 1 > =========================================================================== > > Any ideas what the cause of this is? I tried disabling things like > PNP in the BIOS, but that didn't fix anything. I had the same problems > with the 9/17 and 9/10 floppy images. > -- > Craig Rodrigues > http://www.gis.net/~craigr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
