From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 08:15:26 2004 Return-Path: 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 339EB16A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from calis.blacksun.org (calis.blacksun.org [216.254.108.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C11243D1F for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:15:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Received: by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C96A517082; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:18:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47DC17062; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:18:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:18:48 -0500 (EST) From: Don To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Jorge=20Mario=20G.?=" In-Reply-To: <20040331160347.84505.qmail@web13809.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040331111405.R2780@calis.blacksun.org> References: <20040331160347.84505.qmail@web13809.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 sysinstall disk geometry problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:15:26 -0000 > the very same happened to me with a maxtor hard drive > and it happened to be a bad cable > > check jumper settings, cables, controlers etc It wasn't a jumper problem as it happened with a number of hard disks. I simply commented out the code in sysinstall that generated the error and supplied the geometry through the geometry directive in install.cfg. I was also calling diskPartitionEditor and diskPartitionWrite. If I just called diskPartitionEditor and left the rest for install commit most of the other problems I was having went away. -Don