> > Did you try key 3 = Safe Boot ? (in 10 second timeout before selecting > > USA etc). Some old laptops fail to read fdisk properly without it, > > eg my Digital with 7.0-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso, > > http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/digital/ > > http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#loader.conf > > Though as I see you are using amd*iso I guess you should have a Lot newer > > ATA interafce than my old 586. > > This is a SAS system, not SCSI. I can get a dmesg tomorrow if that's > helpful. Only SAS in GENERIC is device mfi # LSI MegaRAID SAS Is that SAS you mean ? I dont have one. I had problems even without RAID on one old Laptop I refered to (an old traditional P-ATA ) > The problem is not in the geometry detection, but rather than > sysinstall tells me about the geometry every single time I hit a key > in fdisk. My Fdisk or disk driver saw disk size, but Fdisk (via possibly failing disk driver ?) failed to see 4 slices. I've given up on 7 + Sysinstall + Fdisk on that old Dell laptop, & will do a manual old fashioned Unix style install, avoiding sysinstall. At least taht way I will have a platform to work/ analyse from. Detail: Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:14:44 +0100 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs_at_berklix.org> To: mobile_at_freebsd.org Message-id: <200712041614.lB4GEiOw073415_at_fire.js.berklix.net> Not yet arrived here: http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2007/freebsd-mobile/20071202.freebsd-mobile.html -- Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Dump cigs 4 snuff.Received on Thu Dec 06 2007 - 00:01:28 UTC
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