>> When I tried to install FreeBSD, I got the following error: >> *Unable to make new root filesystem >> Command returned status 36*. >> >> When I pressed *OK*, I got the following: >> *Douldn't make filesystems properly, aborting*. > > That's quite likely to be a hardware issue --- either a dying disk or > an IDE controller that is not properly supported. > thank you for your quick reply. I hope it's a problem which can be solved.
>> What can I do about this? > > If you hit Alt-F2 when you get the 'status 36' mesage, there should be > some more informative error messages visible. That should tell us > exactly what's happening. > DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions Warning: Block size restricts cylinders per group to 94. /dev/ad0s1a: 262144 sectors in 64 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors 128.0MB in 1 cyl groups (94 c/g, 188.00MB/g, 16256 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: ad0s1a: hard error writing fsbn 822 of 376-383 (ad0s1 bn 822; cn 0 tn 13 sn 3) status=51 error=10 write error: 128 newfs: wtfs - writecombine: Input/output error This is the part where everything goes wrong and also the end of the Alf-F2 error message. I hope you can help me out. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
