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From: mugele@rainbow.rmii.com (Erik Mugele)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Install problems on Zeos/SCSI
Date: 4 Jan 1996 18:56:04 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
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I am trying to help someone install FreeBSD 2.1 on a Zeos Pantera 133MHz
Pentium.  The hard drive is a four gig Seagate (ST-15150) SCSI drive.
The controller is a PCI Buslogic BT-946C SCSI card.

Going through the installation process, fdisk works whether we assign the
entire disk (prefered) or make something like a 400 meg partition.

After we set up the slice sizes and mount points (we chose default values) 
we get the following errors:

  Unable to swap to /dev/sd0s1b. Device not configured.

Then...

  Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rsd0a!
  Command return status 1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!  Is this just due to stupid Zeos 
hardware?  I have never seen this problem on my other FreeBSD installations 
and have had other OS installation problems with Zeos hardware.

Thanks,
Erik
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