Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:53:31 -0600 From: "adrian esquivel" <adrianesquisi@gmail.com> To: "David Stanford" <dthomas53@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <ca15ad370607260653t9fcbc39hc1209de081ad16ec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f2c91f770607252316q66909e64nb70006590525bdf1@mail.gmail.com> References: <ca15ad370607252257v7bdf95fdu25508880385702c@mail.gmail.com> <f2c91f770607252316q66909e64nb70006590525bdf1@mail.gmail.com>
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> > If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer. > I've installed several times seeing this error and never had a problem. > However, to be safe you could always manually specify the geometry of your > disk in the fdisk utility during install. > > I'm confused. At what point are you pressing Alt-F2? There isn't any point > during the installation, that I can think of, that requires you hitting > Alt-F2. Though, in reference the short error message above, I would first > recommend verifying the checksum of your ISO and then reburning it - start > with the simple things :). > > -David > -- > I'm sorry, I think I didn't explain it very well... When I choose the media type, a message is shown warning that '...this is the last chance... we can take no responsabillity". I hit 'ok' and then a message appears saying 'writing partitions...' and a few seconds later appears one message saying 'Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36' (sometimes the 'Command returned status 1'). I hit 'ok' and then appears: 'Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting'. And finally the last message I receive is 'Instalation completed with some errors. You may wish to scroll through...' At this point is where I press Alt+F2 and the errors (the WRITE_DMA errors) are shown. Is not necessary to press Alt+F2 but I read it somewhere. I hope you know now where do these errors are shown, if not please respond me again and I'll try to explain it better. By the way, I don't think is the checksum because I was trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 at first and the same error occured, but I will check the checksum, is just that... excuse my ignorance, but what is the checksum of my ISO image and how do I verify it???? Sorry I know that is a stupid question...
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