From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 11:23:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cr173116-a.etob1.on.home.com (cr173116-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.163.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27ABA37BA5C for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:23:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cappy@cr173116-a.etob1.on.home.com) Received: from localhost (cappy@localhost) by cr173116-a.etob1.on.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05137 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:23:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cappy@cr173116-a.etob1.on.home.com) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:23:40 -0500 (EST) From: Dennis Jun Reply-To: Dennis Jun To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.0 installations problems; making a new filesystem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all! Like many of you, I'm trying to install 4.0-RELEASE. However, I'm getting some strange errors, which I'm not certain are indicative of 4.0 or something else I have misconfigured in my CMOS. Oh, please bare with me if this an obvious error, I'm a FreeBSD newbie. First off, I have a Maxtor 13.7 gig, 5400rpm, ATA33 hdd as my primary master. When I get to the fdisk part of the install, I create 2 slices. 1 being about 50megs for / (ad0s1) and then a 2nd slice for the rest. Then in partitions I mount / on the 50megs and swap and /usr on the 2nd partition (ad0s2). Now, when it begins to start the install and creating a new filesystem, I get the following errors: ad0s1: raw partition size != slice size ad0s1: start 63, end 6136829, size 6136767 ad0s1c: start 63, end 96389, size 96327 (these 3 lines repeat several times) DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions Warning: 1978 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rad0s1a: 96326 sectors in 24 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors 47.0MB in 2 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 5888 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: WRITE command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done (and that repeats until I stop it with a control-c) Now, the geometry of my hdd is 26353/16/63 (cylinders/heads/sectors). When I set it to LBA mode, it's 1653/255/63. I've tried both modes in my CMOS and when I install BSD. Furthermore, after I get these errors and I reboot, the settings in my CMOS have changed for my hdd! That is really weird. However, I don't know much bout hdds so perhaps it isn't that weird. Anyone have any ideas? Much thanx in advance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message