Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:48:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Seagate ST15150 wi Adaptec 2940 -- can't install Message-ID: <199604172248.PAA20620@mistery.mcafee.com>
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I'm getting a "could not swap to /dev/rsd0a1" (or messages to that effect) from a machine on which I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 (from the Walnut Creek CD set). I boot from a FBSD floppy into the install script. I choose Novice and partition the drive. I've tried "A" (All) and I've tried my usual technique (the one I've used on both of the other FreeBSD servers that I run) -- which is to create a small (64M) partition for '/' and devote the rest of the drive to one big partition. In either case the I do a 'W'rite and the system reports that the partition table is O.K. -- I've tried going on to labeling the disk immediately, and I've tried rebooting and skipping to that part (several variations, several times). Labeling seems to go O.K. until I try to write -- the system then complains that it can't use /dev/sd0s2b as a swap partition and that it can't format/write to or use the '/' (/dev/sd0s1a). This is a Dell Dimension XPS Pentium 133c with an Adaptec 2940, a 3Com EtherLink III and an STB Powergraph VGA card. The drive is a Seagate ST15150 SCSI (external, SCSI 0), the CD-Drive is a Sony, external single-speed, (ID 1). System as 64Mb of RAM. The only thing that's different (that I know of) between this and my last installation is that the drive in the last one was an internal Conner CFP4207S. I noticed that there was no disktab entry for the ST15150 (but I don't know where sysinstall is getting it's information). I also noticed that the Geometry reported by fdisk is wrong. I tried the G parameter and giving the drive parameters (3711cyls, 21heads, and "64,160 avg. bytes / track" which I guessed would have to be represented as 63 sectors -- that being the BIOS limit). Sorry I don't have more exact messages. I'd welcome suggestions about where to go from here. Jim Dennis, System Administrator, McAfee Associates
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