help installing FreeBSD
John Murphy
sub02 at freeode.co.uk
Wed Jul 26 16:59:10 UTC 2006
"adrian esquivel" <adrianesquisi at gmail.com> wrote:
>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
[snip]
I had similar errors reported when I tried to install FreeBSD from a
CDRom drive which was connected to the motherboard with a standard
udma(33?) ribbon cable (Yes write errors). Make sure your connectors
are the better 80 conductor ones.
--
John.
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