Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:19:36 -0400 From: Jim Campbell <jim-c@charter.net> To: Efren Bravo <efrenba@dhl.co.cu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddisk not found on 5.4 and 6.0 Message-ID: <430F24F8.30308@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <WorldClient-F200508260815.AA15490015@dhl.co.cu> References: <20050825214703.GB715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <WorldClient-F200508260815.AA15490015@dhl.co.cu>
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Efren Bravo wrote: >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... > > I was hoping that this would also solve my ATA Identify Timeout problem, but alas, not so. I updated the bios on my systemboard and still have the problem with any version of FreeBSD later than 4.11. I also have a VIA chipset. Jim Campbell
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