Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:58:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Scott Rossillo" <scott@rossillo.net> To: "Matthew T. Lager" <freebsd@trinetworks.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to Install 5.3 SPARC on Sun Fire V100 Message-ID: <24812.66.21.42.100.1100541500.squirrel@66.21.42.100> In-Reply-To: <4909.64.73.235.130.1100538008.squirrel@64.73.235.130> References: <29404.66.21.42.100.1100531343.squirrel@66.21.42.100> <4909.64.73.235.130.1100538008.squirrel@64.73.235.130>
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Hi Matt, Thanks for the quick reply. The error you got is the same one I saw but my V100 has the 40GB disk. I plan to replace the drive as you suggest. I'm looking at a good deal on 2 80 GB 7200 RPM drives w/8MB cache right now. One drive is a Maxtor - which I have been very happy with in the past - and the other is from Western Digital. What brand of drive did you use to sucessfully get FreeBSD running on your V100? Thanks again for the info, Scott > Scott, I assume you are using the 80 gig drive that shipped with it. I was > unable to get FreeBSD installed on that drive no matter what I did... > > I put another IDE drive in the Sun V100 and FreeBSD installed with no > problems. I took the 80 gig drive that shipped with the V100 and put it in > an i386 machine, installed FreeBSD on it with no problem. > > The errors I received during install were write_dma errors, I beleive that > has been issues with the ATA driver and that particular machine. Like Is > aid, I have had no issues with FreeBSD, a new IDE drive, and the Sun V100. > > Let me know what you find out! > > Matt Lager > >> Hello, >> >> I am having a problem installing FreeBSD 5.3 onto a Sun Fire v100 server >> with one IDE disk /dev/ad0. >> >> When I try to write the new filesystem layout to disk, it gives me the >> error: >> >> Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0a! >> Command returned status 36 >> >> Not sure what the problem is. Solaris 10 installs fine on this same >> machine. Additionally, I have an Ultra 5 running FreeBSD 5.3 which >> installed without issue. >> >> When laying out the disk on the v100 I tried doing both a custom and >> auto >> layout, both fail to write to disk and I have to abort the installation. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Scott >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >
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