From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 11 20:28:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 4359D16A420 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:28:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmiller@techskills.com) Received: from cmsout02.mbox.net (cmsout02.mbox.net [165.212.64.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B6F43D48 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:28:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmiller@techskills.com) Received: from cmsout02.mbox.net (cmsout02.mbox.net [165.212.64.32]) by cmsout02.mbox.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A144C8E3 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:28:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from uadvg137.cms.usa.net [165.212.11.137] by cmsout02.mbox.net via smtad (C8.MAIN.3.27I); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:28:21 GMT X-USANET-Source: 165.212.11.137 IN dmiller@techskills.com uadvg137.cms.usa.net X-USANET-MsgId: XID808kBkuCw4700X02 Received: from precious [66.162.187.40] by uadvg137.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/dmiller@techskills.com) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.27E) with ESMTP id 052kBkuCu0448M37; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:28:20 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 66.162.187.40 AUTH dmiller@techskills.com precious From: "Devin Miller" To: Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:28:47 -0500 Message-ID: <002a01c62f49$c406dce0$0601a8c0@tscolumbus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-index: AcYvScK7VDppfG3UQDmgaLFFzGyjVA== Z-USANET-MsgId: XID052kBkuCu0448X37 Subject: Additional Hard Drive Prblems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:28:23 -0000 Hello Everyone, Thanks in advanced for helping me. I am doing a new install of FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE My computer is a Dell PowerEdge 400sc I have 2 hard drives installed in the computer: 1 80GB IDE hard drive and 1 200 GB SATA hard drive I can install FreeBSD on the IDE drive (detected as ad0) fine and have no problems. The issue arises after the install when I try to fdisk and Label the SATA drive (detected as ad4). I want to use the SATA drive as a depot of sorts to hold all my media. I use sysinstall after the installation to slice and label the drive. After I do this and reboot FreeBSD will not boot properly. I usually get just a blinking cursor where the boot loader should be or an invalid partition error. I have tried installing with a boot loader, without a boot loader, I have verified I am slicing and labeling the correct disk. I'm kind of at my wits end. I have reloaded about 10 times trying various ideas. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong? Thanks for any help given. Devin Miller _____ avast! Antivirus : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0606-4, 02/10/2006 Tested on: 2/11/2006 3:28:47 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software.