I understand there were some code glitches in between and thus my update via CVS and subsequent rebuild of the system created a problem.
However, just to be sure, I brought my machine in to the shop to be tested. Windows/XP has no problem booting up and it recognizes the drives. So I returned the machine here and have tried to reinstall FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE and am now encountering more problems.
When I partition the drives, I make sure that all 4 (SATA) drives are consumed by FreeBSD and that newfs (added -b 16384 -f 2048 options to some partitions) is performed.
The listing of drives is in reverse order:
ad10 ad4 ad6 ad8
(I think that was the correct prefix)
I first selected "4" as the root drive, and selected the standard MBR. When the installation was complete, I rebooted and the boot process couldn't find a valid partition and I was left at the "boot" prompt. I reinstalled, using "10" as the root drive, again selecting "standard MBR" for each drive (just to be sure) and the same thing happened: invalid partition, etc.
Clearly the boot record is being read, as I'm at the boot prompt.
I did run into an error I've reported before, where FreeBSD complains about the disk's geometry, and says it is using something "more likely" -- as I recall, that was the right route to go - as I entered in what I see in the SOYO BIOS and it still complains.
I'm stumped as to what the problem could be at this point; any assistance in resolving this would be appreciated. I know I should have gone with SCSI and I probably wouldn't be having these problems now ;-) But this is what I have. The SATA drives are 80gb's (less prone to problems).
Thanks, Forrest
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