From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 18:26:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D302137BA96 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:26:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA74358; Wed, 10 May 2000 20:26:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <003b01bfba91$13455b80$79646c18@burows1.mb.wave.home.com> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 20:26:22 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Mark Johnston Subject: RE: 4.0-RELEASE installation: can't see my hard drive Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-May-00 Mark Johnston wrote: > I'm having trouble installing 4.0-RELEASE - I get through the bootup and > kernel setup, but the "Probing..." screen hangs for about 10-15 minutes. > The installation screen comes up after that, but when I try to start > setup, > it tells me that no hard drives are found. The kernel options I have > enabled are: > > port irq > ata0 0x1f0 14 > ata1 0x170 15 > fdc0 0x3f0 6 > ed0 0x300 9 > ppc0 7 > sio0 0x3f8 4 > sio1 0x2f8 3 > atkbd0 1 > sc0 > npx0 0xf0 13 > > Everything else is disabled. I'm using a 10.1gb Western Digital IDE > drive on a fairly old system (P166, 32MB ram, crap motherboard), and I > don't have EZ-BIOS (the large drive BIOS support software, intended > mainly for Windows) installed. The HD is the primary master, and an > ATAPI CD-ROM is the secondary master. The debug console shows some > errors about timeouts waiting to send commands to ata0-master and read > timeouts on ad0 - it also says that the device has disappeared. > > This system has run Win95 and Linux, and both found the hard drive > without any trouble - I've also booted the OpenBSD install floppy, > which found the HD OK. Where am I going wrong? Sorry, not an answer, just a "me too" here. I was trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 from CD on a friend's machine and saw pretty much the same behavior. Try as we might, we just could not figure out a workaround. Baffling, really. His setup is almost identical to yours: older box, Award BIOS, Cyrix 686, large drive as primary master, CD-ROM as secondary master. The hangs, etc., all the same as yours. It was really quite embarrassing after having raved to him about how great FreeBSD is. I ended up giving him my Linux 6.0 CDs and wishing him luck. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message