Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:15:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: wilson@VNET.IBM.COM Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing using AdvanSys SCSI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904151113420.29545-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9904151141.AA19402@orion.fishkill.ibm.com>
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 wilson@VNET.IBM.COM wrote: > I'm having problems trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 from CD. > > I must admit that I am a SCSI novice, so I may have > set it up incorrectly. There may also be a problem with the > controller card. > > Configuration: > > Tyan Tomcat II Motherboard > Pentium 133 > 32 MB RAM > > AdvanSys PCI SCSI Controller ABP-930/40U > Narrow Ultra SCSI (device #7) > > NEC SCSI CD-ROM (16X) (device #1) (terminator jumper set) > > Seagate ST15230WC (Hawk 4) SCSI Hard Drive (4 GB) (device #0) It should be terminated: [Advansys] --- [Seagate] --- [NEC] term'd term'd > Messages on installation menus: > > Unable to swap to /dev/da0s2b: Invalid argument > > DEBUG: Found a disk device named da0 > DEBUG: Found a DOS partition da0s1 on drive da0 > da0: cannot find label (disk label corrupted) > (more of these same messages) It appears you didn't set up the disklabel correctly. Did you go into the disklabel editor after the slice editor (fdisk)? > DEBUG: Scanning disk da0 for root filesystem > DEBUG: Scanning disk da0 for swap partitions > DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype - > newfs: /dev/rda0s2a: Invalid argument Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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