problems with disk geometry

[Kamal R. Prasad]

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> I doubt it is your disk geometry.  You will probably need to provide a
> little more information.  I assume you've got another OS on /dev/ 
> ad0 and
> that you are letting sysinstall put 6.0 onto /dev/ad1 as a  
> (dangerously)
> dedicated drive?  What does the BIOS report?  How old are the machine
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ad0 is running windows XP and that works fine. ad1 is a new drive (I  
delted the windows partition that existed on it) on which i wish to  
install freebsd. I inserted the CD for 6.0-i386-disc1.iso and it gave  
the msg I mentioned before going to fdisk. fdisk allows me tocreate  
slices and then I can select mount pt etc.. on the next screen. When  
we try to write that information, the operation fails. I mean, there  
is a problem with doing an I/O operation on that hard disk



> and its BIOS?  What does fdisk say when run either standalone or from
> the first OS?
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The motherboard is an "American Megatrends Corp" board with a pentium  
4 chip on it
they ahve  a propreitary bios on it -but its all post 2003 stuff.

Its the same result for fdisk whether you run standalone or from the  
installer.
regards
-kamal


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Kamal R. Prasad
UNIX systems consultant
http://www.kamalprasad.com/
kamalp at acm.org