From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 9:23:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from segue.merit.edu (segue.merit.edu [198.108.1.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBA637B407 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merit.edu (backyard.merit.edu [198.108.62.200]) by segue.merit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63CF25DD93; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:23:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Johansson Jan Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Install boggle (4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from jajoa@wmdata.com on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:40:56PM +0200 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:23:08 -0400 From: "Richard S. Conto" Message-Id: <20011018162308.63CF25DD93@segue.merit.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try making the CD the Master and the HD the slave. My experience has been that CDROM drives really like to be Master and don't work worth a darn as a slave. There's a CDROM site, http://www.cdrfaq.com, but it seems to be down now. On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Johansson Jan wrote: > Trying to install 4.4 on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 (P166) with a 40 gig disk as pri. master, and a ATAPI CD as pri. slave. Everything goes well until "Writing Partition Information", when i get a lot of > > ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > > then the installer returns > > WARNING! Unable to swap to /dev/ad0s1b: Device not configured > This may cause the instralltion to fail at some point > if you don't have a lot of memory > > (i press enter) > > Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a > Command returned status 1 > > (enter) > > Couldnt make filesystems properly. Aborting. > > I have searched the handbook, faq, mailinglists, and i cant seem to find any light at the end of this tunnel.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message