Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:46:10 +0530 From: Kamal R. Prasad <kamalp@acm.org> To: <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with disk geometry Message-ID: <697A7DCB-348B-492A-9A59-ED65983B150B@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <059401c5ca92$e1a2dc70$c901a8c0@workdog> References: <059401c5ca92$e1a2dc70$c901a8c0@workdog>
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> [snip] > > I doubt it is your disk geometry. You will probably need to provide a > little more information. I assume you've got another OS on /dev/ > ad0 and > that you are letting sysinstall put 6.0 onto /dev/ad1 as a > (dangerously) > dedicated drive? What does the BIOS report? How old are the machine > ad0 is running windows XP and that works fine. ad1 is a new drive (I delted the windows partition that existed on it) on which i wish to install freebsd. I inserted the CD for 6.0-i386-disc1.iso and it gave the msg I mentioned before going to fdisk. fdisk allows me tocreate slices and then I can select mount pt etc.. on the next screen. When we try to write that information, the operation fails. I mean, there is a problem with doing an I/O operation on that hard disk > and its BIOS? What does fdisk say when run either standalone or from > the first OS? > > The motherboard is an "American Megatrends Corp" board with a pentium 4 chip on it they ahve a propreitary bios on it -but its all post 2003 stuff. Its the same result for fdisk whether you run standalone or from the installer. regards -kamal > -gayn > > > > Kamal R. Prasad UNIX systems consultant http://www.kamalprasad.com/ kamalp@acm.org
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