Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:27:44 +0100 From: Steven Moix <steven.moix@axianet.ch> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on a PC164LX Message-ID: <BBBD92F1-A665-4B61-8A24-A33193D4E344@axianet.ch> In-Reply-To: <20070224163950.GA81261@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <61C5538C-0560-4577-8C08-8ED99F839BA4@axianet.ch> <20070224163950.GA81261@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Thanks Wilko and Rod, this was a good tip on what could happen... I ended up booting my linux CD (CentOS 4.2 Alpha), went to the console, did a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=10 bs=1000, ran fdisk /dev/sda and created a BSD disk label. Now it shows up fine when I start the FreeBSD installation. You saved my day :) Steven On Feb 24, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:57:24PM +0100, Steven Moix wrote.. >> Hi all, >> >> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and have a serious installation problem >> on my PC164 box: I can't slice/label my disk. >> >> At boot I can see that my disk is recognized (a SCSI disk on a >> Symbios Logic controller, nothing special here): >> ... >> da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 >> da0: <SEAGATE ST39216N 0010> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device >> da0: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16) >> da0: 8761MB >> ... >> >> When I follow the standard FreeBSD installation procedure as >> explained in the handbook I simply can't initialize my disk. As I >> understand, there is no fdisk-step on the alpha architecture, so I >> should directly use disklabel to create my partitions. The problem is >> that my disk doesn't show up in the usual disklabel selection >> area...any clue why? The disk is perfectly visible on a RedHat/Gentoo >> Linux installation so it isn't a hardware problem. > > Most likely there is an old disklabel of some sort (can be Tru64, VMS, > or Linux) already on the disk. Try zero-ing the beginning of the > disk, > something like 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=10 bs=1m' will > typically > do it. If you subsequently boot from the FreeBSD install CD you will > most likely have better luck. > > -- > Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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