From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 11:15:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A848316A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:15:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web54006.mail.yahoo.com (web54006.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.36.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38F8943D3F for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:15:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spamrefuse@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 74655 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Apr 2005 11:15:03 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=EASOUk4NUO3NUpvkBh/vkUZ+f/KSoLpwiVTXFUrUpFyNNsrM475jEMHVpqJ8O3eXvJGvk6coPiI/JQVd8JVBOP78D5XeAx+nqNUJMQJRNov5cfXsiUphnYvygefg++T/ppsMQ9wWBfgKeYMyj7rC51xo26yiQPiQUSpvTItmmc4= ; Message-ID: <20050426111503.74651.qmail@web54006.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [147.46.44.181] by web54006.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 04:15:03 PDT Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 04:15:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob To: Graham Menhennitt In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buggy ATA controller: I can install 4.11, but not 5.3 !?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:15:04 -0000 --- Graham Menhennitt wrote: > Rob wrote: > > >Another reminder: when I try to install 5.3 on this > >PC, I get a "no disk found" error at a very early > >stage of the installation procedure. I hope to > >investigate this further in a not-so-near > future.... > > > > > Rob, > > I have a similar problem with 5.3 although I'm not > doing a new install - I'm upgrading from an earlier > 5.X. Can you please try installing a 5.X > from December last year or earlier. Actually, you > don't need to install anything - I'd just like to > know whether it can see the disk. I've > faised PR kern/79332 about it which contains two > possible fixes. Thank you. The computer is my brother's old Pentium-1 (60 MHz); he and the computer are at the other end of the world. Only when my brother has spare time, we open a live chat connection and I assist him with certain console tasks (he is not at all a Unix/FreeBSD person). However, most of the time I manage this PC remotely (it's now running 4-Stable flawlessly). At some point, we may try once again to install a 5.X version; it should be a straightforward install procedure, because too much freaky stuff might be too complex to explain to a non-Unix, non-FreeBSD person.... My plan for next time, is to use a serial console during install, so that I can receive the kernel output to get a clue why 5.X cannot find the disk, which 4-Stable does find easily. I may travel to my brother's home some time this year; then I will do whatever freaky tricks are needed to find out why 5.X is not installing properly. Regards, Rob. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com