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Date:      Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:18:03 -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:  <3.0.1.32.20000703101803.00713be4@192.168.0.1>

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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
> 
>
>
>


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