From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 27 7:47:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marcos.networkcs.com (marcos.networkcs.com [137.66.16.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEB737B406 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:47:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hinman@networkcs.com) Received: from us.msp.networkcs.com (us.networkcs.com [137.66.12.15]) by marcos.networkcs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA52091; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:47:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hinman@networkcs.com) Received: (from hinman@localhost) by us.msp.networkcs.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id JAA65148; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:47:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hinman) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:47:26 -0500 From: "Lee E. Hinman Ph.D." To: Jacob Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with fdisk on proliant dl380 Message-ID: <20010627094726.B46125@us.msp.networkcs.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jsmith@coolbluei.com on Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:00:53PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message End included message from Jacob Smith -- Lee E. Hinman hinman@networkcs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message