From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 17 22:07:57 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36921065674 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:07:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@xecu.net) Received: from mail-out04.xecu.net (mail-out04.xecu.net [216.127.136.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84658FC0A for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-out04.xecu.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail-out04.xecu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6290D7E972 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:02:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xecu.net Received: from mail-out04.xecu.net ([127.0.0.1]) by mail-out04.xecu.net (mail-out04.xecu.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qrKTgGyA+vWz for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:02:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from shell.xecu.net (shell.xecu.net [216.127.136.216]) by mail-in04.xecu.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED72A7E8CF for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:02:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:02:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dills To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120417175405.X89206@shell.xecu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:07:57 -0000 I've got a new supermicro server I'm trying to get FreeBSD on. It uses the Intel c602 chipset, and it's my understanding that support for that chipset (c60X) was recently added via the isci driver. Ok, great, that explains why 8.2-R and 9.0-R didn't see the drives. So, I grabbed the memstick image of 8.3-RELEASE that is on the ftp server, booted it up, and sure enough, as the dmesg scrolls I see it now properly recognizes da0 and da1, as it should (the memstick is da2). It sees the disks fine at this point, everything looks good. However, once the system finishes booting and loads into sysinstall, and I go to partition the drives, I get "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being properly loaded at boot time". Any suggestions for avenues to troubleshoot this? I have pictures to document if it helps. Seems very odd. I confirmed the behavior with the SATA set to IDE, AHCI, and RAID modes. (The drives were recognized as da0 and da1 during bootup in all three modes, but not by sysinstall.) Thanks, Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 ---