From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 12:15:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847D616A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:15:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from efrenba@dhl.co.cu) Received: from dhl.co.cu (DHLMAIL.dhl.co.cu [200.55.156.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B6043D48 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:15:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from efrenba@dhl.co.cu) Received: from WorldClient by dhl.co.cu (MDaemon.PRO.v8.0.2.R) with ESMTP id md50000033959.msg for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:15:51 -0500 Received: from [7.96.160.15] via WorldClient with HTTP; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:15:49 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:15:49 -0500 From: "Efren Bravo" To: "Roland Smith" , "freeBSD " MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID: X-Mailer: WorldClient 8.0.2 In-Reply-To: <20050825214703.GB715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20050825214703.GB715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> X-Authenticated-Sender: efrenba@dhl.co.cu X-Spam-Processed: dhl.co.cu, Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:15:51 -0500 (not processed: message from valid local sender) X-Return-Path: efrenba@dhl.co.cu X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-MDAV-Processed: dhl.co.cu, Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:15:52 -0500 Cc: Subject: Re: harddisk not found on 5.4 and 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:15:23 -0000 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 >