From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 21:06:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32F4106564A for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:06:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9AB8FC19 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqYXx-0003mK-P2; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:06:57 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NqYXx-0005TT-Hh; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:06:57 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2DL6v3r023221; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:06:57 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o2DL6v7I023220; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:06:57 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:06:57 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Mister Itanium Message-ID: <20100313210657.GB23123@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <230f61611003081111j7f457353g7c28b6cf37a7672@mail.gmail.com> <410865A6-1DCD-4269-91CC-ADE64A3C6E91@mac.com> <230f61611003101913r254d668k152ed5e51ecc9100@mail.gmail.com> <61D1F630-3DA2-47FB-B99F-8B9D7DE87D13@mac.com> <230f61611003110319r68564794k725192b16ae32a8e@mail.gmail.com> <230f61611003111259ja9e91e0mdfd8550df41d64f8@mail.gmail.com> <22F39E8E-C13D-43E7-8AF8-9DAFC14CD6CC@mac.com> <230f61611003111653o3cc8630bj93e0ce53077e9a2c@mail.gmail.com> <230f61611003120412m1cd9704aia0e482f55aca3a77@mail.gmail.com> <230f61611003131254hea7f714v8663873f3a66bc39@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <230f61611003131254hea7f714v8663873f3a66bc39@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Problem - 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:06:59 -0000 On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 03:54:26PM -0500, Mister Itanium wrote: > I'm hitting another DEAD wall. > > I finally got to the installation screen, it detects the HD, but "FreeBSD > DiskLabel Editor" is not able to WRITE/CHANGE anything on the HDD. > > This is what I get when I try to WRITE something on the disk: > > =============================================== > *ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=0 > GEOM: ad0: corrupt or invalid GPT detected. > GEOM: ad0: GPT rejected -- may not be recoverable.* > =============================================== > > And then I get a message saying it can't wirte on ad0 disk etc.. > > > Question number 1: > *Any suggestions/help on resolving this?* > > Question n.2: > *How do I disable ACPI on boot on IA64 machines? > * > > Thanks a lot! > > PS: HDD works fine under Debian Linux, using fdisk I'm able to > change/delete/add partitions without a problem, which makes me think it's > not a hardware issue. Try booting from livefs disk and wipe the disk clean. Choose Fixit shell, and do something like if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1m This helped me in the past. However, in my case the disks were SCSI (da). IIRC I had very similar problem installing on Alpha ATA and SCSI disks. anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423