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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:35:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ales Kubik <kubik@dec.euba.sk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IDE_Controllers_Problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980105203438.1402k-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01bd1a05$0b1f4800$7f1357c1@eclipse.euba.sk>

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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ales Kubik wrote:

> Hi,
> I'd like to have FreeBSD installed on my Pentium machine....I have tried to
> boot from a floppy disk...in UserConfig I have successfully removed all the
> potential conflicts, but after I had tried to continue with installation I
> got message that 'no disks have been found'...There are two IDE controllers
> in my machine, none of which is declared in BIOS as primary or secondary,
> neither master or slave...could you please give me a hint to fix the
> problem?

Hit scroll lock and use the up arrow to find the wdc probe.  Verify that
it's finding the IDE controllers.  If not, you need to tell your system to
fix the positions of the IDE controllers.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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