From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 16:23:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571DA106568D for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:23:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@madigans.org) Received: from mx.seanet.com (mx.seanet.com [64.38.128.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413158FC0C for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:23:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ray@madigans.org) Received: from nefesh (pool-98-117-124-2.sttlwa.fios.verizon.net [98.117.124.2]) by mx.seanet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B15E1EC658 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:05:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ray Madigan" To: Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:05:18 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Subject: Installation Question 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: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:23:35 -0000 I am trying to move a couple of machines from Suse Linux to FreeBSD and I am having an installation issue on the first machine. I have a 1.8GHZ Pentium on an ASUS mainboard. DUring installation I give the geometry of the drive on the machine, a Western Digital WD8000JB, the drive geometry that I find on their website 16383/16/63 in FDisk. The disk was used for the Suse installation so the partitions are correct. So I press Q on the keyboard. I go through the installation until I get to DiskLabel and the drive doesn't show up on the top of the screen. The screen is blank except for the options section. Does anyone know what could be going wrong here. Thanks in advance