From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 13 10:19:47 2005 Return-Path: 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 3603016A4CE for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 10:19:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB39E43D46 for ; Fri, 13 May 2005 10:19:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E2F5D17; Fri, 13 May 2005 06:19:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 57482-05; Fri, 13 May 2005 06:19:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FE65C6C; Fri, 13 May 2005 06:19:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42847F3C.8030100@mac.com> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:19:40 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: simon butsana References: <20050513101046.81657.qmail@web26603.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050513101046.81657.qmail@web26603.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 installation problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:19:47 -0000 simon butsana wrote: > When trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on my computer, I get the following error "No disks found". > > But I can install without any problem Linux or Windows on that computer. The hard disk is IDE 160 GB (Western Digital). > > Does anyone have an idea on a solution? 5.4 just came out, it might be useful to try with that or with 4.11 instead, and see whether they do any better. The next step, or maybe the first step if you want to try with 5.3, is to try booting via safe mode via the startup menu, which disables ACPI, DMA, and all sorts of stuff, and may work enough to install (albeit slower and without powermanagement stuff). You should review and adjust other BIOS settings, such as making sure the BIOS sees the drive in LBA mode (set it directly if need be, don't use automatic). You might also double-check for a BIOS update for your hardware, that may help. -- -Chuck PS: and are the same mailing list, please don't cross-post the way one might do via Usenet.