Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:29:36 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Claus=20Guttesen?= <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: yet another attempt to install RC1 on rx2600 Message-ID: <20031217222936.66225.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi. Whenever I try to install 5.2 RC1 I am either unable to see any destination-disks, or the installer is unable to write the partition-information to the disk with the error "expected offset 0, found 32623 (or in that neighbourhood)". This is probably as a result of many reinstallations trying out different options. Searching Google returned http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2003-October/000219.html So I installed Debian Linux using the diskutilities parted or cfdisk, creating three primary partitions, efi, swap and ext2. The installation went fine, giving me a bootable Debian-system. Starting the 5.2 RC1 installer (once again), deleting the linux-partitions, creating mount-points and choosing a minimal install goes fine. But it fails as mentioned above trying to write the filesystem-info to disk. How do I completely erase any previous information so I can start from scratch? In the old DOS-days one had 'fdisk /mbr' to erase any previous info on the MBR. I'm pretty much stuck, so any advice would be appreciated. I've migrated our Linux-server-farm to FreeBSD two months ago (on i386), so I'd prefer to stick to FreeBSD when comparing our Xeons to Itanium rather than having to do testing on Debian. regards Claus Yahoo! Mail (http://dk.mail.yahoo.com) - Gratis: 6 MB lagerplads, spamfilter og virusscan
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