From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 21:22:00 2005 Return-Path: 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 6EBB016A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:22:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lemuria.unit.liu.se (lemuria.unit.liu.se [130.236.230.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7885C43D1D for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:21:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulfma629@student.liu.se) Received: by lemuria.unit.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 104) id 2EF72F472; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:21:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from liu.se (camelot.unit.liu.se [130.236.230.139]) by lemuria.unit.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BC9F460 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:21:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from [81.94.82.239] by mu.unit.liu.se (mshttpd); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:21:54 +0100 From: Ulf Magnusson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <3364c30625.306253364c@liu.se> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:21:54 +0100 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.17 (built Jun 23 2003) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2-liu_20050119_1740 (2004-11-16) on themis.unit.liu.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, LIU_FROM_MATCHES_LIUSTUDENT autolearn=ham version=3.0.2-liu_20050119_1740 Subject: Weird disk problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:22:00 -0000 Today I decided to install FreeBSD, and so I grabbed a FreeBSD installation CD off the net. The first time I booted from the installation CD, everything went fine (seemingly), and I soon found myself in sysinstall. Not quite ready to install at that point, and needing to shut down the system, I quit sysinstall without having initiated any install or changed any settings (except maybe for the keymap, I can't remember). I returned later to commence the installation only to find that the boot process now hangs, the last message being "GEOM configure ad0s1, start 32256 length 112785007104 end 112785039359" (verbose logging). I did not start my computer between the two occasions, and didn't change my hardware configuration either. Windows, which I have installed on the same disk (I shrunk the NTFS partition by 10 GiB using Partition Magic to make way for FreeBSD), still boots fine. Help appreciated, Ulf