From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 22:44:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77DF316A418 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C6AB13C448 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:44:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u52so1328514pyb.10 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:44:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YTG+9VMrmnLaN4tgQrXUvRDRekXDMUpNMZjw6teLNjs=; b=OxlInK1lL9dNJA8/0FZxwMp9ZCb8CfHzGdFdZKIXl+HQN6zbY/zt4u18IQ12tyXtPMIyWd0FW5LPVexT2i9WPc6VeOhuDWVTRSJ7JXzAP1Yy2pnc0BIzv0kQMmCJhMCpf42jU0lzLTrE0To+nBD9SYJ3Cj0kaHqqNCW1tP51J/I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kwRHyidGbio75BNUDsgG0oDXxnFt4ao4Dz4hOve2M2URX17jJKzNNEUcsHFgnYJUUHZrKBY04SlvBRJKCaKYhMWeSIjNuOCJLYavt1FqK7SJ4+i8B6w5JfyJ9d1LPRqD66CN1pXsHeBh+9ovokKOdEVgzAExts3bBWBsnPVQm0s= Received: by 10.65.126.16 with SMTP id d16mr5466957qbn.76.1201301052355; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:44:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz ( [67.85.89.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e10sm2254996qbe.12.2008.01.25.14.44.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:44:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <479A663A.309@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:44:10 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nerius Landys References: <20080125224807.233a2a14@sparrow> <560f92640801251437r3fd38d83xc7ec07841642fa05@mail.gmail.com> <560f92640801251441y5e8a665dvf2518a6eaf671737@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <560f92640801251441y5e8a665dvf2518a6eaf671737@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Larkin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:44:16 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nerius Landys wrote: >> However, when I reboot (without floppies) I still get the message >>> Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip] >>> >>> and when I go into BIOS , it still doesn't detect the IDE disk. >>> >>> How do I format disk so BIOS recognises it ? >> >> I'm pretty sure this isn't a matter of what bits and bytes are on your >> hard disk. (It's not an issue of formatting.) Someone correct me if I'm >> wrong someone. It seems that the issue is a hardware issue. For example, >> try a different jumper configuration on the back of the physical hard >> drive. Also, there are probably two places on the IDE cable where you can >> plug in your hard drive. Try plugging your hard drive to the very end IDE >> connector (not the middle one) and try setting the hard drive jumper >> configuration to "master". This might help. Just an idea. >> >> > A couple of other thoughts. In the BIOS settings you can probably set the > order of devices it will try to boot from. Set your hard drive as the first > device, or at least make sure it's in the list of devices to boot. > > Once you get the BIOS to recognize your drive and try to boot from it, if it > still ain't booting it probably means that you didn't write anything to the > hard disk MBR during install. You didn't install a boot manager or a simple > boot program into the MBR. If you failed to do this it should give an error message about there being no OS - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Tool Developers Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com "Free software != Free beer" Blog: http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHmmY5Qi2hk2LEXBARAtOqAJsHe4eGBbz6iej5aJqTuIafwoZC7QCdEar7 LN3bwlMTBjWfoGYT4VLZnuQ= =2mT4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----