From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 14:47:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE19416A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:47:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elysium.unit.liu.se (elysium.unit.liu.se [130.236.230.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6ADF43D31 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:47:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulfma629@student.liu.se) Received: by elysium.unit.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 102) id C8E93339F5; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:47:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from liu.se (camelot.unit.liu.se [130.236.230.139]) by elysium.unit.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DE7339F0 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:47:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from [81.94.77.242] by mu.unit.liu.se (mshttpd); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:47:08 +0100 From: Ulf Magnusson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <9fc88a0226.a02269fc88@liu.se> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:47:08 +0100 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.17 (built Jun 23 2003) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2-liu_20050119_1740 (2004-11-16) on themis.unit.liu.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, LIU_FROM_MATCHES_LIUSTUDENT autolearn=ham version=3.0.2-liu_20050119_1740 Subject: Re: Weird disk problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:47:14 -0000 Heh, should've mentioned; I'm installing FreeBSD 5.3 > Ulf Magnusson wrote: >Today I decided to install FreeBSD, and so I grabbed a FreeBSD installation CD >off the net. The first time I booted from the installation CD, everything >went fine (seemingly), and I soon found myself in sysinstall. Not quite ready >to install at that point, and needing to shut down the system, I quit >sysinstall without having initiated any install or changed any settings >(except maybe for the keymap, I can't remember). I returned later to >commence the installation only to find that the boot process now hangs, the >last message being "GEOM configure ad0s1, start 32256 length 112785007104 >end 112785039359" (verbose logging). I did not start my computer between >the two occasions, and didn't change my hardware configuration either. >Windows, which I have installed on the same disk (I shrunk the NTFS partition >by 10 GiB using Partition Magic to make way for FreeBSD), still boots fine. > >Help appreciated, >Ulf