help installing FreeBSD

[Rafael Aquino]

Hi there,

As far as I know, this is a hardware problem. Everytime I experienced
that, it was the HD... The same machine with another equal HD didn't 
show the same problem.

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Rafael Mentz Aquino
BSDServer Ltda.
51 - 9847 8825

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "adrian esquivel" <adrianesquisi at gmail.com>
To: "David Stanford" <dthomas53 at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:53:31 -0600
Subject: Re: help installing FreeBSD

> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a  long-time bug in the installer.
> > I've installed several times seeing this error and never had a problem.
> > However, to be safe you could always manually specify the geometry of your
> > disk in the fdisk utility during install.
> >
> > I'm confused. At what point are you pressing Alt-F2? There isn't any point
> > during the installation, that I can think of, that requires you hitting
> > Alt-F2. Though, in reference the short error message above, I would first
> > recommend verifying the checksum of your ISO and then reburning it - start
> > with the simple things :).
> >
> > -David
> > --
> >
> I'm sorry, I think I didn't explain it very well...
> When I choose the media type, a message is shown warning that 
> '...this is the last chance... we can take no responsabillity". I 
> hit 'ok' and then a message appears saying 'writing partitions...' 
> and a few seconds later appears one message saying  'Unable to make 
> new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36' 
> (sometimes the 'Command returned status 1'). I hit 'ok' and then 
> appears: 'Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting'. And finally 
> the last message I receive is 'Instalation completed with some 
> errors. You may wish to scroll through...' At this point is where I 
> press Alt+F2 and the errors (the WRITE_DMA errors) are shown. Is not 
> necessary to press Alt+F2 but I read it somewhere. I hope you know 
> now where do these errors are shown, if not please respond me again 
> and I'll try to explain it better. By the way, I don't think is the 
> checksum because I was trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 at first and 
> the same error occured, but I will check the checksum, is just 
> that... excuse my ignorance, but what is the checksum of my ISO 
> image and how do I verify it???? Sorry I know that is a stupid question...
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