Unable to Install 5.3 SPARC on Sun Fire V100

[Scott Rossillo]

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
>>
>>
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