From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 14:55:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E4A16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from cpc2-cove3-6-0-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com (cpc2-cove3-6-0-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com [81.107.10.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401B043D62 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:55:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from gamma.private.lan (gamma.private.lan [192.168.0.12]) ESMTP id i15Mtckw025398; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:55:38 GMT (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) From: ian j hart To: Jev , current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 22:55:37 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <40223AA9.90906@ecad.org> In-Reply-To: <40223AA9.90906@ecad.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402052255.37539.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: fresh install of 5.2-r doesn't book on 80gig disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:55:50 -0000 On Thursday 05 February 2004 12:44 pm, Jev wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to install 5.2-R on a Western Digitial WD800 hard disk. By > using all the "default" settings used by the freebsd installer, when I > attempt to boot the machine I get: > > Invalid Partition > Invalid Partition > No /boot/loader > > FreeBSD/i386 boot > Default: 1:ad(1,a)/kernel > boot: > Invalid partition > No /kernel > > FreeBSD/i386 boot > Default: 1:ad(1,a)/kernel > boot: > > As suggested in the warning message before I get to set up my slices, I > attempted to manually set the disks geometry to what my bios reports it as. > > This is what shows in dmesg: > ad0: 76319MB [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 > My bios reports the [cylinder/head/sector] value as: > [38309/16/255] > > Specifying either of those values causes the install program to inform > me that they are incorrect and setting the geom back to [9729/255/63]. I > don't know if the failure to boot is caused by the geometry. > > In addition, I tried to split up the disk into smaller slices, without > success. [Not]Using the freebsd bootmgr makes no diff either. I also > tried this with a 5.0-R cd, and had the exact same result. > > Also, the above mentioned warning message tells me to "please consult > the Hardware Guide in the Documentation submenu" but I couldn't find any > relevant information there :/ > > Help is greatly appreciated..... > > -Jev Might not work for 5.x but try BIOS mode=lba rather than auto. -- ian j hart http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031016