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Date:      Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:19:05 -0500
From:      "Kim J. Brand" <kim@simple-mail.com>
To:        "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@aracnet.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.20000703201905.007060e0@192.168.0.1>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBIJCLELPGBFNNJOFHAELHCDAA.jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
References:  <3.0.1.32.20000703093625.00747ce8@192.168.0.1>

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for a man of few words...you had the CORRECT FINAL ANSWER!!!

i fdisked/formatted the drive with a spare WIN98 Boot Disk, then i deleted
the partition using the 4.0 partition utility, and it WORKED!!

you're a genius.

thanks,

kim

p.s. now, could you please explain how this sequence works:
FDISK-FORMAT-PARTION-LABEL?

At 09:58 AM 7/3/2000 -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kim J. Brand
>> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 9:36 AM
>> To: Rick Hamell
>> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>> Subject: Re: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0
>>
>>
>> just noticed that the failure at the line starting with 'Unable to swap
>> to...' includes a message that the device has not been configured???
>>
>> thanks alot for your reply!
>>
>> i poked around in the bios of my asus p3v4x, (bios v1005,) and found that
>> setting hard drive type to 'user hdd' allowed me to configure LBA.  thanks
>> for the lead!  (this is a WD Caviar 102AA.)
>>
>> however, the failure is the same: at installation startup, after
>> allocating
>> all of the hard drive for FreeBSD, choosing all the defaults for
>> partitioning, and selecting a standard boot manager, the error remains:
>>
>> Unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b: device not configured.  This may cause...
>>
>> then, when i continue, i get:
>>
>> Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rad0s1a!  Command returned
>> status 1.
>>
>> hope this helps.
>>
>> thanks again,
>>
>> kim
>>
>
>Sounds like FBSD is not seeing the hard drive well enough to write to it.
>Have you had this disk and Motherboard working with some other OS, or is
>this a new installation?  If you have not had this hard drive working with
>this motherboard in the past then perhaps there is some kind of cabling or
>jumpering issue here.
>
>Josh
>
>> At 12:24 AM 7/3/2000 -0700, Rick Hamell wrote:
>> >
>> >> i searched the archives and found some references to large
>> hard drives in
>> >> LBA mode.  i didn't notice a selection for that in the setup.
>> but what i
>> >> found allowed me to believe it should work.
>> >>
>> >> is there an option i'm missing?
>> >
>> >
>> >	LBA is setup in the BIOS... make sure you're AutoDetecting the
>> >hard drive in the CMOS and save the settings, but do NOT auto detect on
>> >every boot... that's asking for trouble. Also a copy of the exact error
>> >message you get plus a decription of where you're having problems might
>> >help too. ;)
>> >
>> >				Rick
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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