Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:58:56 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Kim J. Brand" <kim@simple-mail.com>, "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 Message-ID: <NEBBIJCLELPGBFNNJOFHAELHCDAA.jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20000703093625.00747ce8@192.168.0.1>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kim J. Brand > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 9:36 AM > To: Rick Hamell > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 > > > just noticed that the failure at the line starting with 'Unable to swap > to...' includes a message that the device has not been configured??? > > thanks alot for your reply! > > i poked around in the bios of my asus p3v4x, (bios v1005,) and found that > setting hard drive type to 'user hdd' allowed me to configure LBA. thanks > for the lead! (this is a WD Caviar 102AA.) > > however, the failure is the same: at installation startup, after > allocating > all of the hard drive for FreeBSD, choosing all the defaults for > partitioning, and selecting a standard boot manager, the error remains: > > Unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b: device not configured. This may cause... > > then, when i continue, i get: > > Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rad0s1a! Command returned > status 1. > > hope this helps. > > thanks again, > > kim > Sounds like FBSD is not seeing the hard drive well enough to write to it. Have you had this disk and Motherboard working with some other OS, or is this a new installation? If you have not had this hard drive working with this motherboard in the past then perhaps there is some kind of cabling or jumpering issue here. Josh > At 12:24 AM 7/3/2000 -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > >> i searched the archives and found some references to large > hard drives in > >> LBA mode. i didn't notice a selection for that in the setup. > but what i > >> found allowed me to believe it should work. > >> > >> is there an option i'm missing? > > > > > > LBA is setup in the BIOS... make sure you're AutoDetecting the > >hard drive in the CMOS and save the settings, but do NOT auto detect on > >every boot... that's asking for trouble. Also a copy of the exact error > >message you get plus a decription of where you're having problems might > >help too. ;) > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > > > > 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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