Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:15:49 -0500 From: "Efren Bravo" <efrenba@dhl.co.cu> To: "Roland Smith" <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, "freeBSD " <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: harddisk not found on 5.4 and 6.0 Message-ID: <WorldClient-F200508260815.AA15490015@dhl.co.cu> In-Reply-To: <20050825214703.GB715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20050825214703.GB715@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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Hi > I'm trying to put FreeBSD on an older machine, that currently has Linux > installed. It is a 1 GHz Athlon with a Via KT266 chipset. The disk > controller is a VIA 8233. > > The problem is that FreeBSD does not find the harddisk when booting > from > the install CD. The boot loader does, though. This happens both with > 5.4-RELEASE and 6.0-beta1. I'm new working on unix/freeBSD. I had the same problem and solved it upgrading the Motherboard's BIOS. I hope it can help you... > Going to a fixit shell and doing a 'atacontrol list' gives no devices > on > the channel the harddisk is on. I've tried 'atacontrol reinit 0', but > no > luck. I can't get the kernel to recognize the disk. > > If I boot from the harddisk, Linux loads just fine. > > Any thoughts? > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain > text. > public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt >
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