Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:08:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Patterson <psamuel01@yahoo.com> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation error Intel mobile ICH6M SATA controller. Message-ID: <20050918100801.40188.qmail@web33512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <431A6B85.2030609@centtech.com>
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Well I got past that issues and I installed all of my ports. Then when I tried to configure X I realized that it is not recognizing the PCI-X video card, DOH!! It is listed in dmesg as an ISA card. Any advice? --- Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote: > Dean Patterson wrote: > > Well I checked it using the shell and it was > marked as > > active. But the problem is that the ATA driver > only > > supports up to ICH5, per the man pages. So how is > > that situation handled? I assume that I am NEVER > > going to run FBSD on this laptop? > > For what it's worth, I ran 5.4, 6.0, and 7.0 on a > D610 with no problems. > > Eric > > > > > --- Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> wrote: > > > > > >>From: Dean Patterson [mailto:psamuel01@yahoo.com] > >> > >>>I am sorry I should have mentioned that I also > >> > >>tried > >> > >>>explicitly setting the slice active. I will try > >> > >>again > >> > >>>and check it using the shell; however, when I > >> > >>tried > >> > >>>using the holographic shell nothing worked. I > >> > >>tried > >> > >>>using fdisk, bsdlabel, and ls and I always get > the > >>>message "command not found." > >> > >>The holographic shell is not the same as the > fix-it > >>shell. The > >>holographic shell lacks, among other things proper > >>paths, which makes it > >>impossible to run many programs. The "Fix-It" > shell > >>is a menu option in > >>sysinstall and starts a fully-functional shell. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator > Centaur Technology > Anything that works is better than anything that > doesn't. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ______________________________________________________ Yahoo! for Good Donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/
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