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    Installation Error on hard drive, Please Help !!!

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      sandman06
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      i get the following error when trying to install pfsense 2.0 snapshot 20th on my hard drive.

      kern.geom.debugflags: 0 -> 16
      Deleting all gparts
      Running: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=3000
      dd: /dev/ad0: Input/output error
      1+0 records in
      0+0 records out
      0 bytes transferred in 0.312446 secs (0 bytes/sec)
      Cleaning up ad0
      Running: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=2048
      dd: /dev/ad0: Input/output error
      1+0 records in
      0+0 records out
      0 bytes transferred in 0.002383 secs (0 bytes/sec)
      Error 1: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=2048

      here is also a picture of what occurs on screen

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        Guest
        last edited by

        Looks like you're having problems with that hard drive.  Try a different HD and see if that fixes your issue.

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          sandman06
          last edited by

          just brought a BRAND NEW SATA HD

          getting the same errors as above, but not reoccurring only 1 line of that .

          also recieving the following error:

          TIMEOUT - WRITE_MUL retrying (1 retry left) ..

          I have two suspicions

          • its the stupid usb cd rom drive i'm using ?

          • the motherboard ide/sata controller is faulty

          I have tried numerous things. turning off certain things in the bios like acpi and Intel HT.

          I have tried installing on a usb to see if its just isolated to hd or flash. still same problem of not fully installing.

          I have also tried installing other distro's on the HD linux untangle and I get error with not fully installing.

          I have disabled dma from loader prompt, i have booted in safe mode. still no luck

          I have changed the bios hd boot to LBA mode.

          The thing is guys, i have installed windows 7 on another system and moved the HD to the motherboard and it boots the OS fine.

          I have also done HD surface test and I Don't receive any errors.

          Can someone shed some light.

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            sandman06
            last edited by

            I have ditched the usb cd rom and have used a usb to install any os to see if its the ata/sata controller.

            I have installed windows 7 successfully.

            so im confused now as to what the problem is. Im guess its the usb cd rom, but i dont have any internal optical drives to test and as far as im aware pfsense doesnt support usb install ?

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              RpR
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              You can install pfsense from usb. See the sticky on top:
              http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,28264.0.html

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                sandman06
                last edited by

                @RpR:

                You can install pfsense from usb. See the sticky on top:
                http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,28264.0.html

                cheers, i tried that and it worked perfectly

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