Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:47:26 -0500 From: "Lee E. Hinman Ph.D." <hinman@networkcs.com> To: Jacob Smith <jsmith@coolbluei.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with fdisk on proliant dl380 Message-ID: <20010627094726.B46125@us.msp.networkcs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106261551400.11998-100000@lucy.tbscom.com>; from jsmith@coolbluei.com on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:00:53PM -0400 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106261551400.11998-100000@lucy.tbscom.com>
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Jacob,
I've got FreeBSD working on several dl380, and it works great.
Here are a couple of things I did while installing. I know I did
*NOT* set the FreeBSD partition to bootable, and I did *NOT* choose
dangerously dedicated mode. Also I didn't install a boot manager.
Here is what a snapshot of one of my fdisk screens looks like:
Disk name: idad0 FDISK Partition Editor
DISK Geometry: 4353 cyls/255 heads/32 sectors = 35520480 sectors (17343MB)
Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 32 31 - 6 unused 0
32 35520448 35520479 idad0s1 3 freebsd 165 C
The following commands are supported (in upper or lower case):
A = Use Entire Disk G = set Drive Geometry C = Create Slice
D = Delete Slice Z = Toggle Size Units S = Set Bootable
T = Change Type U = Undo All Changes W = Write Changes
Hope that is of some use to you, let me know if any other info would
be helpful.
Lee
On 06/26, Jacob Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first post to this list so I hope I dont step on anyone's toes.
>
> I am having problems getting through installing FreeBSD 4.2 onto a compaq
> dl380. I went through the steps for compaq's SmartStart and set up my
> array, (I have 2x9gig drives that I want to mirror each other with). It
> seems to go fine until I go to install freebsd on the computer.
>
> I go into the fdisk utility and there is a small chunk (~32megs) for the
> compaq stuff and I press 'c' on the large unused block then 's' to make it
> bootable. I then go and start creating the partitions. My first partition
> is 1gig '/' then I have a large 4gig '/usr', 3gig '/home', 250megs '/var',
> and the rest to swap space. I keep getting a status of 36 and it keeps
> dying when it tries to make the root partition.
>
> I have tried moving my partitions and sizes around but still keep getting
> this error.
>
> I looked through the archives but really couldnt find a relevent answer.
>
> Thank you for any time and assistance,
>
> Jake Smith
>
>
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