Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:16:54 -0600 From: matthew <seawise@charter.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk access problem with 5.3 install from CD Message-ID: <1112332613.2719.3.camel@domingo>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Disk access problem with 5.3 install from CD
John.Dutcher at excellus.com John.Dutcher at excellus.com
Thu Feb 3 07:37:03 PST 2005
* Previous message: questions about extra logging
* Next message: /dev/ttyd0 as an Input Device Works on some
Systems but not others.
* Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
________________________________________________________________________
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 ??
I have experienced the same error as above, but have not been able to find a resolution.
I am able to load gentoo, xandros, ubuntu and several versions of windows on the same drive, but am
not able toload FreeBSD.. FreeBSD is what i want to load.
Did you find a solution to this problem? What was it? Any assitance would be nice.
thanks.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1112332613.2719.3.camel>