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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:10:59 +0800 (SGT)
From:      Darmawan Salihun <darmawan_salihun@yahoo.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI IDE Controller Base Address Register setting
Message-ID:  <964892.49841.qm@web76809.mail.sg1.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <201012281352.31367.jhb@freebsd.org>

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Hi, 

--- On Tue, 12/28/10, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: PCI IDE Controller Base Address Register setting
> To: "Darmawan Salihun" <darmawan_salihun@yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 1:52 PM
> On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 1:38:05
> pm Darmawan Salihun wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 12/28/10, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
> > > Subject: Re: PCI IDE Controller Base Address
> Register setting
> > > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> > > Cc: "Darmawan Salihun" <darmawan_salihun@yahoo.com>
> > > Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 10:20 AM
> > > On Monday, December 27, 2010 6:07:35
> > > am Darmawan Salihun wrote:
> > > > Hi, 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on AMD
> Geode LX800
> > > (CS5536 "southbridge"). 
> > > However, it cannot detect the IDE controller (in
> the
> > > CS5536) correctly. It 
> > > says something similar to this: 
> > > > "IDE controller not present"
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I can't find a message like that
> anywhere.  Can
> > > you get the exact message 
> > > you are seeing?
> > > 
> > 
> > It says: 
> > 
> > "No disks found! Please verify that your disk
> controller is being properly
> > probed at boot time."
> 
> Oh, so this is a message from the installer.  Can you
> capture a verbose dmesg
> via a serial console perhaps?  

I'm not sure if I can do this because I've tried a couple of times 
but nothing comes out of the serial console. Perhaps a wrong baud rate setting? 
I set it to 96bps and 8-N-1 back then. Is that correct? 

> Or at least the kernel
> probe messages for your
> ATA controller?
> 

I recall that pressing Alt+F2 during the installation would open-up 
another console, full with log messages. Would that be enough? 

Thanks, 

Darmawan



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