From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 17 04:33:33 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 D37C216A41F for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 04:33:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B4543D46 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 04:33:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id AC8E5AFF00A4; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:33:18 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8H4YmeZ024793; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j8H4YhmP024792; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:34:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Rogelio_Rodr=EDguez?= References: <20050917013221.GA3412@simia.ath.cx> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:34:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20050917013221.GA3412@simia.ath.cx> ( =?iso-8859-1?q?Rogelio_Rodr=EDguez's_message_of?= "Fri, 16 Sep 2005 18:32:21 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation woes 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, 17 Sep 2005 04:33:33 -0000 Rogelio Rodríguez writes: > I have Phoenix Award BIOS v6.00PG (as it seems to identify > itself) and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus (ST3120026A) and they > don't seem to like each other. When partitioning, it's suggested > that the harddrive geometry seems unlikely though the install > seems to go off without a problem--tried changing the geometry to > what the BIOS believes the geometry to be that doesn't work. > Anywho, it can boot off of the harddrive but can't mount root. At > the mountroot prompt, '?' tells me that acd0 is the only drive. > So there's no hard drive after all. > > The motherboard is an ABIT KV8 Pro... > > Any ideas? It would help to provide more details, like which version you were installing and more about the error symptoms. I'm not sure even what the mountroot prompt is. Do you get the "beastie" ASCII art? Are you getting a lot of boot messages before it prompts you? Did any say anything about ad0 or such? It seems odd that it would boot the kernel with /boot/loader, but not find a filesystem to mount, because that filesystem is the one it should find. You didn't by any chance mount /boot on a separate filesystem than /, did you, like in Linux? You can't easily do that with FreeBSD. I will say that in the last several years, my big disks have always been 255/63 heads/sectors in the BIOS, but FreeBSD 5.4 complains and uses 16/63 and everything works fine. (I seem to remember it using 255/63 in 4.X, but maybe my memory's failed me on that.)