From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 14:55:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5ADE37C1A3 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA31915; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:55:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:55:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Adam Staudt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 4.0-R on a Dell Precision Workstation 620 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Also remember you can use scroll-lock to go up and see messages. Also dmesg. On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Adam Staudt wrote: > i've seen some threads about this previously, specifically relating to the > AIC-7899 scsi controller... > > my experience up to now has been with IDE, so i may be just making a silly > mistake here, but, what is happening is, i boot the 4.0-R kern and mfsroot > disks, launch into the installer, but it reports that no disks are > found. i can't see the bootup scroll quickly enough to tell if ahc0 is > being detected, and i don't see an ahc device in the pre-install kernel > config dialog. (i wonder if having it probe for aha will find this)? > > i am thinking that it is finding the scsi controller, because it does wait > 15 seconds for 'scsi devices to settle' before launching the installer. > > any help on this is greatly appreciated. > > adam > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message