This is great news! If anyone else has had trouble, please try the image in my home directory listed in a message prior. It will let you manually fill in the sectors, etc if you need to correct the discovered values. Look forward to feedback, we need to kill this installation bug once and for all!
Thanks On 10/12/05, Kevin Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > 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. > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ____________ > > Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
