Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:01:34 +0400 From: Wartan Hachaturow <wart@tepkom.ru> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: 5.1-RELEASE installation problem Message-ID: <20030710130134.GA27869@mojo.tepkom.ru>
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Hello. I've got a 164LX with onboard CMD IDE chipset. For some strange reason the installer refuses to create or edit a disklabel on 80Gb Seagate IDE drive. The label utility doesn't show a "main slice" on which I'm supposed to create partitions. First of all, I thought the problem may be with one existing large partition on it, marked as "NetBSD" type (it actually had NetBSD installed :). I've booted FreeBSD from another drive, and tried to disklabel -w ad1 auto. "Operation unsupported". fdisk is missing. Okay, I've boot Linux from the third drive. Linux's fdisk recognised the drive perfectly. I've removed the only partition on the disk, leaving it blank. Booted 5.1 installer -- just the same, empty label utility, with no "master slice". I tried zeroing the first sector of the drive from Linux -- same faulty result. I've even tried creating a Sun disklabel with Linux's fdisk -- this hasn't helped either. What can be the problem? -- Regards, Wartan.
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