From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 07:28:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25030 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 07:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bartman.ic.sunysb.edu (bartman.ic.sunysb.edu [129.49.12.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25001 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 07:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsabella@ic.sunysb.edu) Received: from ic.sunysb.edu (as4-23.dialup.sunysb.edu [129.49.81.29]) by bartman.ic.sunysb.edu (8.8.7/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA00451; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 10:28:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <352794E6.6189D6BD@ic.sunysb.edu> Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 10:27:50 -0400 From: Jason Sabella X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New information... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Doug. Since like I said in my last message it was reading the zip disk, I figured I would remove the zip disk and see what would happen. I did, and went to install FreeBSD. Right before the screen where it usually goes to fdisk, it instead said: "NO DISKS FOUND! Please verify that your disk conroller is being properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the Documentation menu for clues in diagnosing this type of problem" Well, I did that. And I checked to see if there were any conflicts with anything called "disk controller" in the kernel config, and there aren't. Also, I saw in the doc that wdc# things have to do with disk controllers. So I watched the screen at boot up, and it says: wdc0 not found at 0x1f0 wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa I don't know what that means, but maybe it will help. Please tell me any suggestions so that it will read my hdd. Thank you..Jason Sabella --- Doug White wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jason Sabella wrote: > > > Hi Doug. I only have the one hard 6.4 GIG hard drive. I don't know > > what that "wd2" is. Is that possibly a wrong partition? Is there a way > > to change it to a different "wd" in the install program(if such a thing > > exists). My current configuration is this: > > You should be prompted before going into fdisk for which disk you want. > > Post your boot message output again. > > > But the installation program still says: > > Disk name: wd2 <<----- > > Disk Geometry: 512 cyls/12 heads/32 sectors = 196608 sectors > > Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags > > 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0 > > 32 196192 196223 wd2s1 2 fat 6 = > > 196224 384 196607 - 6 unused 0 > > Hm, 196608 * 512 bytes == 100663296 bytes, or a 100mb drive. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message