help installing FreeBSD

adrian esquivel adrianesquisi at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 05:57:37 UTC 2006


Hi! I've been trying to install FBSD on my computer, but I keep getting an
error message that I have absolutely no idea what it means. This is what I
get when I hit Alt+F2

DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63
ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
LBA=63
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=63
ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
LBA=67
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
fstab: /etc/fstab:0: No such file or directory
/dev/ad0s1a: 512.0MB (1048576 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
           using 4 cylinder grops of 128.02MB, 893 blks, 16448 inodes.
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=191
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=191
ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
LBA=191
newfs:: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector 160: Input/output error
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=223
ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error(retrying request) LBA=223
ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED>
LBA=223
I've got a Maxtor of 60GB as primary master. My geometry is wrongly reported
by the installation program, it reports a geometry of 119108/16/63 while the
BIOS reports one of
1024/240/63. I think this has nothing to do since I'm planning to have
FreeBSD as the only OS of the machine, but you never know...
These errors are shown just after I leave the partition editor, when they
give the warning of making Back ups. Then the 'Writing partitions; message
is shown and then the last one that says: "Unable to make new root
filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36"
Please help me! I've been asking everywhere and nobody answers me... Is
there no solution for my problem????


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list