Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:39:50 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Steven Moix <steven.moix@axianet.ch> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on a PC164LX Message-ID: <20070224163950.GA81261@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <61C5538C-0560-4577-8C08-8ED99F839BA4@axianet.ch> References: <61C5538C-0560-4577-8C08-8ED99F839BA4@axianet.ch>
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On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:57:24PM +0100, Steven Moix wrote.. > 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. Most likely there is an old disklabel of some sort (can be Tru64, VMS, or Linux) already on the disk. Try zero-ing the beginning of the disk, something like 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=10 bs=1m' will typically do it. If you subsequently boot from the FreeBSD install CD you will most likely have better luck. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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