Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 09:36:25 -0500 From: "Kim J. Brand" <kim@simple-mail.com> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20000703093625.00747ce8@192.168.0.1>
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just noticed that the failure at the line starting with 'Unable to swap to...' includes a message that the device has not been configured??? thanks alot for your reply! i poked around in the bios of my asus p3v4x, (bios v1005,) and found that setting hard drive type to 'user hdd' allowed me to configure LBA. thanks for the lead! (this is a WD Caviar 102AA.) however, the failure is the same: at installation startup, after allocating all of the hard drive for FreeBSD, choosing all the defaults for partitioning, and selecting a standard boot manager, the error remains: Unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b: device not configured. This may cause... then, when i continue, i get: Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rad0s1a! Command returned status 1. hope this helps. thanks again, kim At 12:24 AM 7/3/2000 -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > >> i searched the archives and found some references to large hard drives in >> LBA mode. i didn't notice a selection for that in the setup. but what i >> found allowed me to believe it should work. >> >> is there an option i'm missing? > > > LBA is setup in the BIOS... make sure you're AutoDetecting the >hard drive in the CMOS and save the settings, but do NOT auto detect on >every boot... that's asking for trouble. Also a copy of the exact error >message you get plus a decription of where you're having problems might >help too. ;) > > Rick > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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