Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:23:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot Message-ID: <4F8E5DFF.4080708@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20120417175405.X89206@shell.xecu.net> References: <20120417175405.X89206@shell.xecu.net>
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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--
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