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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Installation trouble...Please help
To: lray@aurora.liunet.edu
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 12:48:12 +1030 (CST)
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <95121914243820@aurora.liunet.edu> from "lray@aurora.liunet.edu" at Dec 19, 95 02:24:38 pm
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lray@aurora.liunet.edu stands accused of saying:
> I installed a 20 meg DOS partition on the SCSI so FreeBSD can figure 
> out the geometry of the disk (as I read in the FAQ).  I then booted
> form the boot floppy, selected Novice Installation, and made the appropriate
> partitions and filesystems (/,/var,/usr,swap).  
>                                
> When the installation starts,  I get:
> "Couldn't make filesystems properly.  Aborting."
> 
> If I press control-f2 I see the message:
> DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for root filesystem
> DEBUG: Scanning disk sd0 for root filesystem
> DEBUG: Scanning disk wd0 for swap filesystem
> DEBUG: Scanning disk sd0 for swap filesystem
> pid 5: sh: uid 0: exited on signal 11

You appear to have hardware problems; possibly memory, cache or disk 
controller.

> Can anyone help me understand exactly what these messages mean and what I'm
> doing wrong? If so, please write.

The shell (sh) was killed because it caused a segmentation violation, most
likely because it was corrupted.

> L.Ray

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