From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 26 07:35:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3003F16A41F for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:35:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@kelleycows.com) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8656943D62 for ; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:35:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@kelleycows.com) Received: from [10.3.29.200] (c-24-30-114-96.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[24.30.114.96]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <200511260735370130039kj1e>; Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:35:42 +0000 Message-ID: <4388103A.9010602@kelleycows.com> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:35:22 -0800 From: Christopher Kelley User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20051124120055.11A4F16A41F@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051124120055.11A4F16A41F@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Unable to install on large hard drive 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, 26 Nov 2005 07:35:45 -0000 Up until now, I've installed FreeBSD on smaller drives (< 15 gig), but I recently had to replace the HD in my windows machine, so I got a larger hard drive with the idea of installing fBSD on it as well and dual booting that machine. The motherboard is an Asus A7V133, and the hard drive is a Maxtor 4D040H2 40 gig HD. The motherboard supports LBA, so I'm led to believe (though googling) that the HD size isn't a problem. fBSD correctly recognizes the HD when booting. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 6.0-Release, I haven't tried any of the 5.x versions to see if the results are the same. I have a small partition for the windows system that is 5 gig, a large partition for programs and data that is 18 gig, and around 15 gig left for fBSD. The installer squawks about the drive geometry, and says it will use a more sane geometry. I set up the slices and it doesn't squawk about writing them, and then attempts to install the system. I immediately get an error "Write failure on transfer!" and it can't seem to write anything to the drive. The good news is, it isn't harming my windows partitions. I can easily boot back into windows and everything there works. I did look through the manual and searched a bit on google, but I'm not having much luck finding even suggestions of what to try. Does anyone have any suggestions? Christopher