Error mounting install image!!!

[Reconmax]

I have been using FreeBSD for about 6 months now as my primary workstation. I decided to check out PC-BSD to investigate the bells & whistles. I downloaded the DVD iso and tried to install but the install bombs out indicating an error mounting the install image. I looked around and see that there are some threads indicating the problem might be that FreeBSD does not support the DVD/CD drive. However, that seems unlikely in my case since I installed FreeBSD with no problems and never had to do anything special to use my DVD/CD.

Nevertheless, I booted into single user mode and did a;

# ls /dev/*cd*

I have acd0 and cd0…

I tried mounting both unsuccessfully. acd0 was the device name under FreeBSD as well. What am I missing? Is my only option to install from a flash drive?


Here is a snippet;

ad0: 95396MB <Hitachi HTS721010G9SA00 MCZOC10H> at ata0-master SATA150
acd0: DVDR <HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GSA-T11N/A102> at ata1-master UDMA33
acd0: FAILURE – INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 sks=0x40 0x00 0x01 cd0 at ata1 bus0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA T11N A102> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
cd0: cd present [1 x 2048 byte records]
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0
g_vfs_done():acd0[READ(offset=32768, length=2048)]error = 5
acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): READ TOC/PMA/ATIP. CDB: 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST csi:43,0,0,c asc:24,0
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): Invalid Field in CDB: Command byte 6 is invalid
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): Unretryable error
acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
g_vfs_done():acd0[READ(offset=32768, length=2048)]error = 5
ls: /dev/da*: No such file or directory
Error mounting install image!!!
Please report this problem to PC-BSD support!
Press ENTER to reboot

[antik]

acd0: FAILURE – READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x000 sks=0x40 0x00 0x06
g_vfs_done():acd0[READ(offset=32768, length=2048)]error = 5
ls: /dev/da*: No such file or directory
Error mounting install image!!!
Please report this problem to PC-BSD support!
Press ENTER to reboot
[/code]

Have you verified your downloaded iso image with md5 first? Also I'd recommend to burn your verified iso to RW media- they are tend to be much higher quality that write once discs.

[Reconmax]

Thanks for the tip. I re-burned the DVD at a slower rate and it worked fine. Completed the install process.

[Buck_Lucky]

I have Done Everything possible, no results. I have tried it on Multiple systems, Burned Countess DVD's. I just want to get a way for the the problem(Windows OS). What do i do now after i have tried just about everything.

[ralbuque]

Hi. I'm having the same problem getting the DVD mounted. Can't past the
install process.
Now, the difference with me is that I've purchased a shrink wrapped
DVD for PC-BSD from freebsdmall.com. This is PC-BSD version 7.0 (fibonacci edition.)

I've tried installing FreeBSD 7.0, that I also purchased from the same place, and
that worked fine, got to sysinstall and everything.

Any pointers on what to do here so that I can get PC-BSD to install. ?

Your response is greatly appreciated.

[mcvk]

hi... I'm a newbie here and I have the same problem... I even burnt the dvd-RW in 2x speed, using any available program in Linux repositories...
It is still not working...
a little help here??
by the way, I installed it on a virtual machine with the iso file, and worked perfect...

[Cobalt]

Rewritable, huh? That might be the problem. I've had problems with booting rewritables that were not closed sessions. Try a standard DVD-R and run a md5 sum (in a terminal, type md5 /path/to/file.iso) on your image. If that fails, you may need to download an image using gotbsd.net.

[mcvk]

wait a sec...
I have tried both DVD-R and DVD-RW...
none of them works...
and about running md5 etc., where?
using linux, or other os?

[Cobalt]

You can check the MD5 sum with the command md5 in Linux using a terminal with the command md5sum /path/to/file.iso Sorry about that. There's a program to check on Windows, but I don't know what that is... Downloading from gotbsd.net should download a complete image for you if your MD5 sum doesn't check out with PC-BSD's download page.

I've heard a few cases of people taking their hard drives out, installing the drives in other computers and just installing from there. I've installed PC-BSD on multiple machines without problems, so I don't have much experience with boot failure. I think I had one bad image, though. Good luck.

[TerryP]

winmd5sum is a decent program for checking md5 checksums against files (like iso) under Windows systems. I've used it for years along side FreeBSDs md5 utility.