Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:14:23 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot Message-ID: <ED5CC249-6A81-47D8-8459-4F3910E43F3E@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20120417175405.X89206@shell.xecu.net> References: <20120417175405.X89206@shell.xecu.net>
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On 18/04/2012, at 7:32, Andy Dills wrote: > I've got a new supermicro server I'm trying to get FreeBSD on. It uses the > Intel c602 chipset, and it's my understanding that support for that > chipset (c60X) was recently added via the isci driver. Ok, great, that > explains why 8.2-R and 9.0-R didn't see the drives. > > So, I grabbed the memstick image of 8.3-RELEASE that is on the ftp server, > booted it up, and sure enough, as the dmesg scrolls I see it now properly > recognizes da0 and da1, as it should (the memstick is da2). It sees the > disks fine at this point, everything looks good. > > However, once the system finishes booting and loads into sysinstall, and I > go to partition the drives, I get "No disks found! Please verify that your > disk controller is being properly loaded at boot time". > > Any suggestions for avenues to troubleshoot this? I have pictures to > document if it helps. > > Seems very odd. I confirmed the behavior with the SATA set to IDE, AHCI, > and RAID modes. (The drives were recognized as da0 and da1 during bootup > in all three modes, but not by sysinstall.) That does seem very odd - if they appear as daX then sysinstall should see them. Can you go into the holographic shell (or livecd if you have it) and run.. echo /dev/da* echo >/dev/da0 echo >/dev/da1 (this will trash the first sector of da0 and da1 but I assume that's OK since you're installing on those). If you could obtain a KLD for isci built for 9.0 you could load it in the loader and see if that installer sees it, you might not have the facilities for that though.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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