From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 10:50:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417A91065672 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:50:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (mail-gw2.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFB78FC13 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:49:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw6.york.ac.uk (mail-gw6.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.26]) by mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m23Anva6012219; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:49:57 GMT Received: from buffy-128.york.ac.uk ([144.32.128.160] helo=buffy.york.ac.uk) by mail-gw6.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JW8F3-0003HG-00; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:49:57 +0000 Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m23AnubS011668; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:49:56 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m23Anu27011667; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:49:56 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Raphael Salas In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:49:56 +0000 Message-Id: <1204541396.11514.12.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard disk not detected during install X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:50:05 -0000 On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 22:43 +0000, Raphael Salas wrote: > Hi, > > I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7479, and want to run > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE on it. However, during partitioning, my hard disk > (SATA) is not found, even with ACPI disabled and during safe mode. > pciconfig -lv says the ATA controller's vendor is ATI. Additionally, > my BIOS doesn't provide any options regarding hard disk, therefore, I > cannot switch it to IDE mode. Is the controller detected at all when booting from the install CD? When you are at the sysinstall menu, you should be able to press scroll lock and page up back through the boot messages. Booting "verbose" may well be useful. If it's not detected, compare this with the boot messages from 6.3 and see what the differences are. Does it try to attach and fail, or never even notice the controller is there? If the controller attaches successfully, have a look towards the end of the boot messages for where disks get detected. What are the errors? It sounds like you already have 6.x or something on the machine, if so you may find that you can boot (with verbose logging) the 7.x CD, abort the installer, reboot into 6.x and find the 7.x boot messages in /var/log/messages. Otherwise, taking digital pictures of the boot messages and sending links to the list may well help us diagnose the problem. Gavin