From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 01:30:50 2004 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 7702D16A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:30:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.heronetwork.com (mail.heronetwork.com [216.254.62.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849FD43D5E for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sandshirmp@comcast.net) Received: by mx1.heronetwork.com (Postfix, from userid 1003) id E785FA4B37; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:30:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from comcast.net (c-24-19-3-98.client.comcast.net [24.19.3.98]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.heronetwork.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC9CA4BCD; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:30:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <40162FA9.9010003@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:30:17 -0800 From: Ryan Merrick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Koopmanschap References: <20040126200501.GA517@topjaklont.mydomain.org> In-Reply-To: <20040126200501.GA517@topjaklont.mydomain.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on nott.heronetwork.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "No disks found!" in Sysinstall despite of supported IDE Controller 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: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:30:50 -0000 Ben Koopmanschap wrote: > Hello Everybody! > > I have a Pentium 4 2,66 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB UDMA HardDisk which in > Linux is recognized to have a Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller > (IDE). For more details about the chipset and other things, one can > eventually visit: > > http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d845gbv/matrix.htm > > (please see the right column). > > On my Hard Disk I have the following partition scheme: > > 1st primary partition --> Fedora Core 1 (Linux) > 2nd primary partition --> Swap Partition > 3rd primary partition --> Linux From Scratch > 4th partition --> extended partition > 5th logical partition --> Swap > 6th logical partition --> Linux From Scratch (for experimental purposes) > 7th logical partition --> Swap > 8th logical partition --> Linux From Scratch (for experimental purposes > either) > 9th logical partition --> Swap > > I am bothering you with this scheme because I'm not quite sure it has to > do with my problem, but maybe the information will help you to assist > me.;) > > AFAIK, my hardware is supported by FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2. > > I downloaded the iso's of both the releases of FreeBSD (4.9 and 5.2), > burnt them on CD-ROM and tried to install a FreeBSD on my system. > > Unfortunately, with both releases I totally get stuck when I in > Sysinstall choose for "Begin a standard installation.." After Sysintall > said to me it is going to try to find my hard disk, I get the error > message: > > "No disks found! ..." (followed by the message that I have to check if > my storage controller was properly been probed by the kernel). After > several attempts and having seen the kernel coming up, I ensured myself > that the kernel probed my controller properly. Though my hard disk is > not recognized! > > Of course I have tried to enable/disable several drivers in the kernel > configuration menu (which I only was able to with the 4.9 - release), > but none of all tried combinations did work. > > I start to get a little desperate now, so I hope very hopefully that > someone on this list can point me in the right direction. > > Thanks anyway for your attention! > > With regards, > > Ben Koopmanschap > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi, Your problem is that all 4 of your bootable partitions are used on linux. -- -Ryan Merrick sandshrimp@comcast.net