Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:36:56 -0500 From: John.Dutcher@excellus.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Disk access problem with 5.3 install from CD Message-ID: <OF37221764.0939186A-ON85256F9D.0054CC93-85256F9D.0055C76C@excellus.com>
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I have noted success stories from some who have installed FreeBSD on Compaq
Laptops similar to mine: Compaq Armada 7400, 6.2 gig drive, 128 mb RAM.
I purchased the 5.3 (2) CD, (1) DVD set and have tried multiple times to
use CD 1
to install. All attempts fail after providing these message:
1) Early in the process: "ad0: Failure Read_DMA timed out"
(this msg is repeated 3-4 times)
I select a standard install, giving the entire drive to FreeBSD
No MBR needed...don't want to accomodate other OS's
2) Soon I get; "Writing partition information to drive ad0"
followed by: "Error Unable to write data to disk ad0"
and then: "Couldn't make filesystem properly, aborting"
Responding to some other user sites, I tried doing a boot from my Win
backup rescue boot disk and ran FDISK to apply a single DOS partition as I
had read that this might help.....didn't seem to. Results as before.
Any ideas available as to what I might try next ??
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