From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 8:30:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.netdirect.net (mail1.netdirect.net [209.212.192.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F7037B820 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 08:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kim@simple-mail.com) Received: (from simplem@localhost) by pop.netdirect.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with UUCP id KAA28087; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:21:46 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: pop.netdirect.net: simplem set sender to kim@simple-mail.com using -f Received: from kim (adam.simple-mail.com [192.168.0.3]) by mail.simple-mail.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA12796; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:00:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kim@simple-mail.com) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20000703101803.00713be4@192.168.0.1> X-Sender: kim@192.168.0.1 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:18:03 -0500 To: Rick Hamell From: "Kim J. Brand" Subject: Re: install fails on 10.2 GB drive using 4.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG more info: in the virtual screen, i noticed an error about the ad0s1b slice starting beyond the end of the disk. this drive has 20044080 sectors which are identified correctly in the partitioning screen. when i move to the disklable editor, i can use the automatic feature to create slices. when i press 'W' there just to see if it works, i see the message about being unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b: invalid argument. in the virtual terminal i see a line about how the slice at ad0s1 starts beyond the end of the disk, 'ignoring it'; then about slice ad0s4 extending beyond the end of the disk and how its going to truncate it from 2857697280 to 20044080. seems like a math error to me. i've also tried fooling it into think the drive was only 8GB. that didn't work either. kim 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