From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 18:47:34 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 154BB16A41F for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:47:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B29A43D45 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:47:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7QIl4qa045684; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:47:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 22B5F61EB; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:47:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:47:04 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Efren Bravo Message-ID: <20050826184704.GB8507@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Efren Bravo , freeBSD References: <20050825214703.GB715@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="98e8jtXdkpgskNou" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freeBSD 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 18:47:34 -0000 --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--