Re: 7.0beta3 Installation problem

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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: mobile@xxxxxxxxxxx
Message-id: <200712041614.lB4GEiOw073415@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Not yet arrived here:
http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2007/freebsd-mobile/20071202.freebsd-mobile.html

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