Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:42:50 -0600 From: Kenneth Andresen <kenneth@cancun.net> To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.2.1 - problems installing - Disk geometry problems Message-ID: <1078263770.1137.106.camel@chabocha.intracol.net>
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Hello all! I am unfortunatly having multiple problems while trying to install FreeBSD, and would like some help continuing the install process. First off - about 80-90% of the time when booting from the 5.2.1 install cd, I can't get to partition the hard drive. Upon closer examination, I am detecting the boot-up error: ata0-master: Failure - ATA_IDENTIFY no interupt When detecting my hard drive, I am told the geometry of the drive is wrong and am promted to change this to what's written in the bios. I went into the bios to get this information, however with that inforation I am still getting incorrect geometry error messages. Since the system is a multi-boot machine, I do not want to destroy all the other partitions on the disk trying the auto-assumed geometry, so I hope you may help me out setting the correct geometry. Here are the data om my machine: Motherboard: Gigabyte KT400 AGP 8X/FSB 333 Processor: Athlon XP 2000+ Hard drive: Western digital: WDC WD400BB
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