On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:00:21 +0100 Colin Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/4/18 Jordan Gordeev <[email protected]>: > > Colin Adams wrote: > >> > >> I don't know if it is the same problem (it certainly sounds > >> similar). > >> > >> This is not a laptop though. Nor is it an old machine (less than 3 > >> years old). > >> > >> Anyway, I have booted DragonFly from the live CD and logged in as > >> root. > >> > >> But what device name do I use (I only have one disk)? Everything I > >> guessed at, it says "device not configured". > >> > >> 2009/4/17 Michael Neumann <[email protected]>: > >> > > > > Try ad0 or sd0. > > You should look at dmesg(8) output and see what devices the kernel > > has recognised (and what names they got). > > > > I had already tried ad0. > > dmesg revealed that the disk hadn't been seen at all. Perhaps I > plugged it in too late. Re-booting and re-plugging really early did > the trick (it was ad0, which was where the live DVD installed > DragonFly yesterday). > > so fdisk -C ad0 says (slightly abbreviated): > > cylinders=310101 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 bytes. > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information form DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > ssysid 165,(DragonFly/FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 312581745 (152627 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63 > partitions 2 3 and 4 <UNUSED> > > So where do I go from here? Basically, follow those instructions below, replacing ad4 with ad0, and "fdisk -B -I ad4" with "fdisk -B -I -C ad0". You simply have to by-pass the installer, because it doesn't use the "-C" option in fdisk, which is essential! http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/07/30/dragonfly-on-hammer/ The instructions above are a bit outdated, but they should still work. You can stop the instructions after "reboot". Regards, Michael
