From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 13:53:34 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 A0C9216A4DE for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:53:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrianesquisi@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71BF43D53 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:53:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adrianesquisi@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b36so2760335pyb for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:53:31 -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=o0zRKVVca7T9VviQ3a+NDua70F0wPruS1hmd0HPjEwsFmFsdBvdrSDOoTeB8BELXxfC+y9U+V5RpY+s3aSZZ516Rzc96ZCkjdgYVsC8B6Y2HNFaUPlDegoRCcuaIixOgOirsum4Hdff/GfTMCq0cML1hCVQ4yLc5EK5bt3jXB2k= Received: by 10.35.38.17 with SMTP id q17mr11505518pyj; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.14.10 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:53:31 -0600 From: "adrian esquivel" To: "David Stanford" 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 13:53:34 -0000 > > 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'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 > -- > I'm sorry, I think I didn't explain it very well... When I choose the media type, a message is shown warning that '...this is the last chance... we can take no responsabillity". I hit 'ok' and then a message appears saying 'writing partitions...' and a few seconds later appears one message saying 'Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36' (sometimes the 'Command returned status 1'). I hit 'ok' and then appears: 'Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting'. And finally the last message I receive is 'Instalation completed with some errors. You may wish to scroll through...' At this point is where I press Alt+F2 and the errors (the WRITE_DMA errors) are shown. Is not necessary to press Alt+F2 but I read it somewhere. I hope you know now where do these errors are shown, if not please respond me again and I'll try to explain it better. By the way, I don't think is the checksum because I was trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 at first and the same error occured, but I will check the checksum, is just that... excuse my ignorance, but what is the checksum of my ISO image and how do I verify it???? Sorry I know that is a stupid question...