On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:50:26AM -0400, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > Hello to all. > > Sorry to start off this way, but I'm a complete noob to openbsd. So, please > forgive if I ask stoopid, boring questions. I will try to rtfm and search > for solutions to my issues before posting here. The issue isn't "stupid, boring questions", but providing no useful info.
> I recently installed 3.7 on an older box: > > Gateway 200 > Pentium Pro 200 cpu > 256MB RAM > 20GB EIDE HD > > On install, I had problems slicing the drive. I wanted to do a "standard" > slicing (/, swap, /usr, /var, /tmp, /home). I tried to create the slices so > that the total fit the drive (duh), but It may have been the sizes of the > slices themselves that caused me grief. Maybe. you didn't show us. > Anyway, I gave up on that, and simply created / and swap (wd0a and wd0b). > The > install went fine from there. However, upon initial and subsequent reboots, > I get the following error: > > wd0b: id not found reading fsbn 1573356 of 1573356-1573359 (wd0 bn 39321948; > cn 39009 tn 13 cn 57). something went bad when trying to read from swap (wd0b=swap). > That's the final message after the system has tried several times. The boot > process then continues, and all appears to be well. I've added some > programs, and done some other work, and the system seems fine. > > However, the error bothers me. And, it may cause a disaster further down the > road, for all I know. you either mispartitioned your drive or you have a bad disk. Either could cause that kind of message. Can't narrow it down with the information given. However, yes, you have an issue there that needs to be fixed. If you have a question about partitioning, you provide info about your partitioning (both fdisk and disklabel). Always provide dmesg. http://www.openbsd.org/report.html http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq2.html Nick.
