From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 06:16:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2130416A4DF for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:16:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5058243D58 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:16:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so3183113uge for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:16:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=X/F6l3a51bTdfr8XBEIH+OZi8HnfY2vcNc9v4CcBS3nSKlWmP1yVbhpN1rx7t0thik0eGLWbGY3orK+sIrnJ/iffwGMmqhccVeuGNN7+QFBGDC33QRjZhNQ6mfebiE/bqDyrCREsbqLvOciUAlUlESvydopLR6ER7iZpeDS7fio= Received: by 10.78.159.7 with SMTP id h7mr2855542hue; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.165.18 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:16:53 -0400 From: "David Stanford" To: "adrian esquivel" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help installing FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:16:56 -0000 > > I've got a Maxtor of 60GB as primary master. My geometry is wrongly > reported > by the installation program, it reports a geometry of 119108/16/63 while > the > BIOS reports one of > 1024/240/63. If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer. I've installed several times seeing this error and never had a problem. However, to be safe you could always manually specify the geometry of your disk in the fdisk utility during install. I think this has nothing to do since I'm planning to have > FreeBSD as the only OS of the machine, but you never know... > These errors are shown just after I leave the partition editor, when they > give the warning of making Back ups. Then the 'Writing partitions; message > is shown and then the last one that says: "Unable to make new root > filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36" I'm confused. At what point are you pressing Alt-F2? There isn't any point during the installation, that I can think of, that requires you hitting Alt-F2. Though, in reference the short error message above, I would first recommend verifying the checksum of your ISO and then reburning it - start with the simple things :). -David -- [root@fbsd ~]# fortune Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion.