From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 13: 5:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F40537B99E for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:05:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA34723; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA41695; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:06:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200007042006.NAA41695@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3961E2D8.F0CD6775@buckhorn.net> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 13:06:44 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Bob Martin Subject: Re: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Jul-00 Bob Martin wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> >> That means the MBR has some wacky geometry in it. If you could boot >> into the install and use the live filesystem CD fixit option and then >> run fdisk on the drive in question (e.g., 'fdisk ad0'), the output >> could be rather helpful in figuring out where sysinstall is getting >> confused. >> >> -- >> >> John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >> PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc >> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > John, > > The bios gets the drive geometery correct, but on a virgin drive with no > master boot record, FreeBSD 4.0 will fail as described. I don't have the > exact message from the debug screen, but it was basically:Can't write > label. Partition can't extend past cylinder 1024. It then give an 8 > digit number for the number of cylinders. The numbers where sane in both > the fdisk and disklable portions of sysinstall. It wasn't until the > write happened that it failed. Odd. It shouldn't be having such difficulties. :) I'll look into it. If it looks ok in fdisk and disklabel, then it should work fine. :( -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message