From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 10:16:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from forrie.net (forrie.net [216.67.12.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56B237C4EB; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:16:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from Forrest (getbent@forrie.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.129.124]) by forrie.net with id e2NIFsC19314; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:15:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000323131429.00b69410@216.67.12.69> X-Sender: forrie@216.67.12.69 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:15:08 -0500 To: Mike Smith From: Forrest Aldrich Subject: Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks Cc: Eric Sabban , Matthew Dillon , Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200003231808.KAA01160@mass.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is not sysinstall built and installed with a typical make buildworld/installworld? Anyways, I rebuilt it and it works now. Sysinstall was the culprit. _F At 10:08 AM 3/23/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > I tend to think there is something wrong with sysinstall... obviously, the > > OS works as the internal drives (also LVD 10KRPM drives) > work. Sysinstall > > just tells me there aren't any disks in the system. > > > > So, hope whomever maintains sysinstall is monitoring this conversation. > >Sysinstall works fine _IF_IT_IS_IN_SYNCH_WITH_THE_REST_OF_YOUR_SYSTEM_. > > > I will attempt another rebuild of the system. I've not had a chance to > > check the cvs logs to see if someone committed any changes/fixes with > > serendipity. > >Just rebuild sysinstall, like I told you to start with. Or just bring >the disks up by hand, which is much faster. Or even try Warner's >'diskprep' tool. > >-- >\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith >\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org >\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message