[snip]
I doubt it is your disk geometry. You will probably need to provide a
little more information. I assume you've got another OS on /dev/
ad0 and
that you are letting sysinstall put 6.0 onto /dev/ad1 as a
(dangerously)
dedicated drive? What does the BIOS report? How old are the machine
ad0 is running windows XP and that works fine. ad1 is a new drive (I
delted the windows partition that existed on it) on which i wish to
install freebsd. I inserted the CD for 6.0-i386-disc1.iso and it gave
the msg I mentioned before going to fdisk. fdisk allows me tocreate
slices and then I can select mount pt etc.. on the next screen. When
we try to write that information, the operation fails. I mean, there
is a problem with doing an I/O operation on that hard disk
and its BIOS? What does fdisk say when run either standalone or from
the first OS?
The motherboard is an "American Megatrends Corp" board with a pentium
4 chip on it
they ahve a propreitary bios on it -but its all post 2003 stuff.
Its the same result for fdisk whether you run standalone or from the
installer.
regards
-kamal
-gayn
Kamal R. Prasad
UNIX systems consultant
http://www.kamalprasad.com/
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