Re: PowerApp 120/1550 Install problems
sysinstall will frequently silently fail on the physical partitioning stage for any variety of reasons which will fail to create the appropriate slice entries Show us your partition and slice tables? Send logs from the emergency VTY? ~BAS On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 21:02 -0400, Don Munyak wrote: On 3/17/07, Minnesota Slinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey list, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell PowerApp 120 (1550) I just purchased. The system claims to have an AIC 7899 SCSI host adapter. I've currently got a known-good 9GB Fujitsu hard disk in the system, as ID 0. During installation, the disk comes up as da0. After going through all the options for install, etc, I get an error when it tries to write the file systems: Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev! and mentions that installation is aborting. At first I thought it was a problem with the SCSI backplane, but RHEL and Window 2000 Server both install and operate without problems. Thanks for your advice! Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't know the answer, but have a suggestion. How about getting a live cd to boot from and then query /var/log for hardware spec's Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PowerApp 120/1550 Install problems
On Mar 17, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Don Munyak wrote: On 3/17/07, Minnesota Slinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey list, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell PowerApp 120 (1550) I just purchased. The system claims to have an AIC 7899 SCSI host adapter. I've currently got a known-good 9GB Fujitsu hard disk in the system, as ID 0. During installation, the disk comes up as da0. After going through all the options for install, etc, I get an error when it tries to write the file systems: Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev! and mentions that installation is aborting. At first I thought it was a problem with the SCSI backplane, but RHEL and Window 2000 Server both install and operate without problems. Thanks for your advice! Eric Crist Don't know the answer, but have a suggestion. How about getting a live cd to boot from and then query /var/log for hardware spec's Don Thanks for the answer Don, but I finally figured it out. Apparently the drive I had wasn't negotiating the right speed with the backplane. When I manually clocked it down, everything works great. - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PowerApp 120/1550 Install problems
Hey list, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell PowerApp 120 (1550) I just purchased. The system claims to have an AIC 7899 SCSI host adapter. I've currently got a known-good 9GB Fujitsu hard disk in the system, as ID 0. During installation, the disk comes up as da0. After going through all the options for install, etc, I get an error when it tries to write the file systems: Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev! and mentions that installation is aborting. At first I thought it was a problem with the SCSI backplane, but RHEL and Window 2000 Server both install and operate without problems. Thanks for your advice! Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PowerApp 120/1550 Install problems
On 3/17/07, Minnesota Slinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey list, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell PowerApp 120 (1550) I just purchased. The system claims to have an AIC 7899 SCSI host adapter. I've currently got a known-good 9GB Fujitsu hard disk in the system, as ID 0. During installation, the disk comes up as da0. After going through all the options for install, etc, I get an error when it tries to write the file systems: Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev! and mentions that installation is aborting. At first I thought it was a problem with the SCSI backplane, but RHEL and Window 2000 Server both install and operate without problems. Thanks for your advice! Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't know the answer, but have a suggestion. How about getting a live cd to boot from and then query /var/log for hardware spec's Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
