Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 00:24:10 -0700 From: "Michael MacKinnon" <mackinnon.m@home.com> To: "Brennan W Stehling" <brennan@offwhite.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Install Hell... Message-ID: <000f01bfb8be$67490940$92597318@rct1.bc.wave.home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005072250560.77608-100000@home.offwhite.net>
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Thanks for the quick response. As I mentioned below, I've already tried three different HDs, though. (10GB, 4GB, and 400MB) Are you familiar with Award BIOS (circa 1998)? Is there some funky setting that has to be shut off before Linux or FreeBSD can put their file system on it? Is there a particular geometry that I have to use (LBA, CHS (or normal), or Large settings) for the hard drive? FreeBSD Install seems to find the normal settings just after kernel configuration but displays the LBA settings in the screen that partitions the disk. Any other ideas? Thanks Mike. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Michael MacKinnon <mackinnon.m@home.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 8:52 PM Subject: Re: Install Hell... > I would have to say it is a hardware failure. Try with a different > hard drive. You tried it with two different systems, FreeBSD and Linux > and it did not after many tries. > > You must be pretty sure it is not the software. Now you have to > troubleshoot the hardware. > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > On Sun, 7 May 2000, Michael MacKinnon wrote: > > > Hi there, > > I've been trying to install FreeBSD for about two weeks > > now, and I've been having absolutely no luck whatsoever. > > > > I'm trying to install version 3.1 from the Walnut Grove CDs. > > > > Everything appears to go just fine until it tries to set up > > the files system (when it uses the newfs command). > > Then I get page faults, lockups, and reboots (oh my!). > > Any changes I try to make just seem to leave me with a different error > > in the same place. > > I've even tried to install Linux and it fails on the filesystem,too. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Details on my system: > > > > Celeron 466 > > Award BIOS > > 32MB RAM > > ATAPI CD-ROM / DVD player (Pioneer) > > 10 Gig Western Digital HD > > (also tried a Maxtor 4Gig and a Maxtor 400MB) > > > > Extra question: > > should I use LBA, Normal, or Large in the BIOS? > > > > > > Thanks for any help... > > Michael MacKinnon > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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