Bug 23958
| Summary: | Installation fails on an i486 DX2 machine (filesystem) | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | kaz <kaz> |
| Component: | misc | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 4.2-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
State Changed From-To: open->feedback It could be that you are running out of memory. Have you tried adding more memory to the machine? Does the problem still persist with newer FreeBSD releases? <keramida@FreeBSD.org> writes: > It could be that you are running out of memory. Actually, it looks much more like a full defective disk. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes: > Actually, it looks much more like a full defective disk. full *or* defective. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Originator confirmed that this was a hard disk problem. Fixed by changing his hard disk. |
When I try to install FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE onto the machine, the installer program issues following messages: Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36 Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting. The commit operation completed with errors. Not updating /etc files. Fix: In the step 4. above (Partition), Instead of selecting A (Use Entire Disk), select the following operations, and at least the filesystem will be made succsessfully. D C and answer the default values. Q But the commit operation will fail in a different way, which will be reported in another problem report. How-To-Repeat: 1. Add a file /boot.cofig where parameter "-h" is written to kern.flp. (The machine has neither a console nor a keyboard. It has only a serial terminal.) 2. Start the installation. 3. Custom. 4. Partition. A (Use Entire Disk) and answer "No" S (Set Bootable) Q 5. Label. C - 484M - FS - / C - 66048 - Swap Q 6. Distributions. Custom - select bin. 7. Media. FTP - URL ftp://192.168.0.3/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386 ed0 Configure ed0 8. Commit.