From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 06:24:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 706311065675 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:24:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B8F8FC20 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:24:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q3I6O5q1021069 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:24:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q3I6O5q1021069 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/q3I6O5q1021069; dkim=none (no signature); dkim-adsp=none Message-ID: <4F8E5DFF.4080708@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:23:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Dills References: <20120417175405.X89206@shell.xecu.net> In-Reply-To: <20120417175405.X89206@shell.xecu.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC22C02FAB7C5D4F5CDA21D63" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:24:17 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC22C02FAB7C5D4F5CDA21D63 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 17/04/2012 23:02, Andy Dills wrote: > However, once the system finishes booting and loads into sysinstall, an= d I=20 > go to partition the drives, I get "No disks found! Please verify that y= our=20 > disk controller is being properly loaded at boot time". If you boot into 'Live CD' rather than the installer, can you still see the drives in /dev ? If so, you should be able to go ahead and install the system manually -- it takes a little knowledge of some of the low level management commands, but it isn't particularly difficult. If you wanted to use ZFS for instance, you'ld have to do a manual install anyhow, and there are many recipes around the web. If the drives appear in the dmesg output and then disappear that's a whole different kettle of fish. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enigC22C02FAB7C5D4F5CDA21D63 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+OXgUACgkQ8Mjk52CukIy8hQCfTUUBbY3+TW+G3aho0BNM7y5b j78An3XQhXjAAmYxYSYaAHsXZVjB71jI =uSk/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC22C02FAB7C5D4F5CDA21D63--