Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:47:04 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Efren Bravo <efrenba@dhl.co.cu> Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: harddisk not found on 5.4 and 6.0 Message-ID: <20050826184704.GB8507@slackbox.xs4all.nl> 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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--98e8jtXdkpgskNou Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:15:49AM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 >=20 > I'm new working on unix/freeBSD. I had the same problem and solved it > upgrading the Motherboard's BIOS. =20 > =20 > I hope it can help you... The bios seems to recognize the drive allright, and so does the boot loader. But the bios is quite old, so I'll give it a try. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --98e8jtXdkpgskNou Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDD2OoEnfvsMMhpyURAsaRAJ0d/F/K//apnB6uGY6cAHw4zWaQfwCdHmOh wIC/ubP38NY41wuOQsOp5Oo= =99VY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --98e8jtXdkpgskNou--
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