Thanks, I went into the BIOS and noticed that it had the information
totally different than what was printed on the drive itself. If I put
in what is on the drive, the BIOS seems to think it's only a 8.4GB
drive. I played with the settings, then I set it to AUTO + LBA and
that's the only one where it set it as 63 sectors and correctly
identified the size. AUTO + CHS and AUTO + Large both listed 255 next
to sectors. Anyhow, I set it to LBA and even though the info there is
different from what's printed on the drive's label, it seems to be
working fine so far. I have no idea why this computer thinks it has 255
sectors, I never thought to check the BIOS because I didn't think it
would list it with different parameters than the old PC it was in.
I'm installing it right now and so far it got passed all the parts where
it failed before with no problem.
Holger Bauer wrote:
Maybe you can try this: Enter your BIOS and set your drive parameters MANUALLY
(CHS). There was someone reporting this behaviour in the IRC channel and this
solved it for him. Please report back if this makes any difference for the
installation.
Holger
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Von: Kevin Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 17:45
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [pfSense Support] Problem installing 0.86.4 to hard disk
Alright, cool, and thanks for the response :)
Scott Ullrich wrote:
This is a known problem and we are working on it. No solution in
sight as of yet.
Scott
On 10/11/05, Kevin Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, first off I'm a noob to BSD and well pretty much anything other
than Windows ;)
That said, it refuses to allow me to partition under the installer. The
LiveCD runs fine but I'd like to install it to the hard drive. What
happens is when I try to partition, I get an error on line one stating
that the number of sectors must be between 1 and 63.
I read on a link that I should go to the shell and do fdisk -I ad0, when
I do that I get an error "fdisk: Geom not found". It's a Chaintech 7KJD
with AMDR 761 + VIA VT8231 as the north and south bridge chipsets.
Someone else I read from mail-archives.com had this issue with a VIA
chipset. The cables are brand new, and the hard drive is fine (don't
have another one to test anyway).
Anything I can do to install this? I have *no* clue what I should
download or what I should do as far as using a different partitioner.
If I skip the parts where it fails, I do see it writing to my hard
drive. Then it asks me to reboot and remove the CD. When it starts
booting from the OS, it says it can't find the kernel.
I don't know if it happens in earlier versions because this is the only
one I found, and it's the newest. This is my first time installing and
using pfsense. I want to use it over m0n0wall because I'm using it on a
PC, and I want to use it over ipcop because the traffic shaping in
pfsense doesn't cause my downloads to break.
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