From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 17:13:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CA416A420 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:13:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalpr@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC5B43D72 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 17:13:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalpr@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so210136wra for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:13:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-priority:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer:sender; b=cWvHMLUzDl/TnstSPfhyVGLGJF2TGqi/MJ7Xc6SS9GOSZiynNcOMbDwF7usntz/PtEpEwY9CtYfq5zaDy5U4Il+RdRXHdaOpIeA+sx9Btaib7Ht5mgYd6VRDliobZ1e0ITRFSeD0M1rD4YJCzBMtOv0RfHz8wLX2spQBM4T7FCs= Received: by 10.54.157.12 with SMTP id f12mr1292498wre; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:13:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.20? ( [59.92.143.25]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 14sm1867263wrl.2005.10.06.10.13.01; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:13:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <059401c5ca92$e1a2dc70$c901a8c0@workdog> References: <059401c5ca92$e1a2dc70$c901a8c0@workdog> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <697A7DCB-348B-492A-9A59-ED65983B150B@acm.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kamal R. Prasad Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 22:46:10 +0530 To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Sender: "Kamal R. Prasad" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with disk geometry X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:13:11 -0000 > [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