Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:57:24 +0100 From: Steven Moix <steven.moix@axianet.ch> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Installing on a PC164LX Message-ID: <61C5538C-0560-4577-8C08-8ED99F839BA4@axianet.ch>
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Hi all, I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and have a serious installation problem on my PC164 box: I can't slice/label my disk. At boot I can see that my disk is recognized (a SCSI disk on a Symbios Logic controller, nothing special here): ... da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <SEAGATE ST39216N 0010> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16) da0: 8761MB ... When I follow the standard FreeBSD installation procedure as explained in the handbook I simply can't initialize my disk. As I understand, there is no fdisk-step on the alpha architecture, so I should directly use disklabel to create my partitions. The problem is that my disk doesn't show up in the usual disklabel selection area...any clue why? The disk is perfectly visible on a RedHat/Gentoo Linux installation so it isn't a hardware problem. Thanks Steven
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