Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:35:22 -0800 From: Christopher Kelley <bsd@kelleycows.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Unable to install on large hard drive Message-ID: <4388103A.9010602@kelleycows.com> In-Reply-To: <20051124120055.11A4F16A41F@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20051124120055.11A4F16A41F@hub.freebsd.org>
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Up until now, I've installed FreeBSD on smaller drives (< 15 gig), but I recently had to replace the HD in my windows machine, so I got a larger hard drive with the idea of installing fBSD on it as well and dual booting that machine. The motherboard is an Asus A7V133, and the hard drive is a Maxtor 4D040H2 40 gig HD. The motherboard supports LBA, so I'm led to believe (though googling) that the HD size isn't a problem. fBSD correctly recognizes the HD when booting. I am attempting to install FreeBSD 6.0-Release, I haven't tried any of the 5.x versions to see if the results are the same. I have a small partition for the windows system that is 5 gig, a large partition for programs and data that is 18 gig, and around 15 gig left for fBSD. The installer squawks about the drive geometry, and says it will use a more sane geometry. I set up the slices and it doesn't squawk about writing them, and then attempts to install the system. I immediately get an error "Write failure on transfer!" and it can't seem to write anything to the drive. The good news is, it isn't harming my windows partitions. I can easily boot back into windows and everything there works. I did look through the manual and searched a bit on google, but I'm not having much luck finding even suggestions of what to try. Does anyone have any suggestions? Christopher
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