From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 22:32:56 2005 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 BE14B16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:32:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from xanadu.unit.liu.se (xanadu.unit.liu.se [130.236.230.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADA343D54 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:32:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulfma629@student.liu.se) Received: by xanadu.unit.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 102) id C0D444D5DE; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:32:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from liu.se (camelot.unit.liu.se [130.236.230.139]) by xanadu.unit.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CEA4D514 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:32:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from [81.94.82.239] by mu.unit.liu.se (mshttpd); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:32:52 +0100 From: Ulf Magnusson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <38e4a350a9.350a938e4a@liu.se> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:32:52 +0100 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.17 (built Jun 23 2003) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2-liu_20050119_1740 (2004-11-16) on themis.unit.liu.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, LIU_FROM_MATCHES_LIUSTUDENT autolearn=ham version=3.0.2-liu_20050119_1740 Subject: Re: Weird disk problems 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: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:32:56 -0000 Heh, should've mentioned: I'm installing FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE. The disk only has one partition (and 10 GiB of unallocated space) right now by the way, and that's the one Window's on. ad0s1 should represent that partition if I'm reading the manual correctly. >> Ulf Magnusson wrote: >>Today I decided to install FreeBSD, and so I grabbed a FreeBSD installation CD >>off the net. The first time I booted from the installation CD, everything >>went fine (seemingly), and I soon found myself in sysinstall. Not quite ready >>to install at that point, and needing to shut down the system, I quit >>sysinstall without having initiated any install or changed any settings >>(except maybe for the keymap, I can't remember). I returned later to >>commence the installation only to find that the boot process now hangs, the >>last message being "GEOM configure ad0s1, start 32256 length 112785007104 >>end 112785039359" (verbose logging). I did not start my computer between >>the two occasions, and didn't change my hardware configuration either. >>Windows, which I have installed on the same disk (I shrunk the NTFS partition >>by 10 GiB using Partition Magic to make way for FreeBSD), still boots fine. >> >>Help appreciated, >>Ulf