From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 14:01:13 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 64E1E16A4DE for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@bsdserver.com.br) Received: from nitrobsd.bsdserver.com.br (dns.bsdserver.com.br [200.215.210.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C9443D5C for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:01:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@bsdserver.com.br) Received: from webmail.bsdserver.com.br (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nitrobsd.bsdserver.com.br (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6QE18Sc046471 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:01:08 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from freebsd@bsdserver.com.br) From: "Rafael Aquino" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:01:08 -0300 Message-Id: <20060726135812.M28593@bsdserver.com.br> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502 X-OriginatingIP: 200.96.72.178 (bsdserver) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 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 14:01:13 -0000 Hi there, As far as I know, this is a hardware problem. Everytime I experienced that, it was the HD... The same machine with another equal HD didn't show the same problem. []'s -- Rafael Mentz Aquino BSDServer Ltda. 51 - 9847 8825 ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "adrian esquivel" To: "David Stanford" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:53:31 -0600 Subject: Re: help installing FreeBSD > > > > 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... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ------- End of Original Message -------