Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:42:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl> To: Len Huppe <huppe@execpc.com> Cc: Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loosing hope here.... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990720174048.8889A-100000@ux1.ibb.net> In-Reply-To: <378E9C20.AADE7E50@execpc.com>
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Dear Len, Thanks so much for your advice. I did what you said and .... yes, sysinstall worked just fine. PLz forgive my stupidity, i knew it was the cdrom who caused the trouble so i disconnected it from my computer and install bsd, now i connected it agaion and set the options in the bios correct and indeed sysinstall works again. Thanks! Sincerely, Reinoud. On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Len Huppe wrote: > Sounds to me like you have a compatibility issue. Have you tried going into > the BIOS of your system and changing the translation mode to DMA for the drive > in question? As for that drive having 65K heads on it, that's just a > translator trying to make the BIOS on your system see the drive. The authors > of FreeBSD had to do that because of the brain-dead way that PC BIOS systems > work. There are three modes that thess translators work in: normal, large, and > LBA. You will most likely need to use LBA. > > good luck > > Len > > > Wel... finally, i low-level formatted my drive with a program i got from > > WD, i have a wd harddisk. > > But still sysinstall crashes on wd3, he says that he read 65556 heads and > > so on from the partition table,....?????? > > Impossible! Anyway, i send you the mail before but i dont understand why it > > was possible to install fbsd the first time without problems of sysinstall > > crashing, i tryed the same things i did back then, but nothing works.... i > > really dont like it. > > At this moment, it seems that this is the end of freebsd for me!!! > > Really i hate that, linux has no problems, linux just partitions the disk > > and works with it, but i dont want to work with linux! > > Really, i think we got a weak point of freebsd crashing, why does linux > > read the disk well and bsd crashes on it? (that is sysinstall crashes!) > > Can anyone tell me what i can do about this? > > Is there any, any way to install bsd now if sysinstall keeps crashing. If > > this keeps beging so, i will have to switch to openbsd i am afraid, that > > install just fine like linux.. Does anybody ever had the same problem? > > Sincerely, > > > > Reinoud. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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