Bug 15040

Summary:	Installation problems with 3.x FreeBSD
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	iovtchev <iovtchev>
Component:	i386	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description iovtchev 1999-11-22 08:50:00 UTC

Trying to install any 3.x release of FreeBSD, I have problems
with the disks geometry and that's why fail to complete the process successfully.
While having worked under 2.2.8 release with the same hardware (see below)I managed to find the parameters under which the system worked properly.
1)The parameters used for the disks under 2.2.8 are 1286/16/63, slicing compatible with other FS;
2)Under 3.x I failed to find any useful params for the disks. I tried all possible combinations of disk params(either 1286/16/63 or 633/64/32, which I got from DOS partitioning) and slicing policies.
But anyway system gives me failure messages like: write errors during distribution set unpacking; MAKEDEV erors at the end of installation; Boot Loader misplacing - in the best case.

The installation attemts were performed on the following computer:
CPU: i486 DX2 (486-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x436  Stepping=6
  Features=0xb<FPU,VME,PSE>
real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
eisa0: <INT3011 (System Board)>
aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 11 drq 5 on isa
(aha0:0:0): "HP 97548S C033" type 0 fixed SCSI 1
sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 633MB (1296512 512 byte sectors)
(aha0:1:0): "HP 97548S C033" type 0 fixed SCSI 1
sd1(aha0:1:0): Direct-Access 633MB (1296512 512 byte sectors)

Comment 1 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer

2001-05-25 11:05:33 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Can you try this again with FreeBSD 4.3?

Comment 2 Kris Kennaway 2001-05-25 21:46:33 UTC

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:06:25PM +0400, Dmitry L. Iovtchev wrote:

> It's not only firmware imperfection, because on previous version of
> Fr.BSD it works. At my opinion, you have changed something into
> storage subsystem and have eliminated support of old hardware.

Okay, we can leave this report open if you want to pursue it by
sending more information later.

Kris

Comment 3 Arnaud S . Launay 2001-11-15 19:28:10 UTC

Hello,

There have been a lot of changes in disks drivers since 3.3, would you 
mind telling us if its always a problem or not ?

Thanks,
	Arnaud.

Comment 4 Dag-Erling Smørgrav freebsd_committer

2002-03-19 14:50:10 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout.