From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 05:35:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB535106566B for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 05:35:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0D3D8FC13 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 05:35:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m245ZoiT025406; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "comperr" , Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:36:50 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1914 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:35:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: Subject: RE: HDD missing from sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:35:52 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of comperr > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 7:28 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: HDD missing from sysinstall > > > When I put in my fbsd 6.3 or 7.0 install disk sysinstall is unable to > detect any of the hard drives in my computer. > > This is includes SATA and IDE HDDs in varying orders. BIOS is able > to detect the the hard drives. I Previously had fbsd 6.2 installed > on them and the problem started when I upgraded the kernel to 6.3 > although I don't see my upgrades relevance as I have tried to > reinstall from a clean disk since then. What is the machine model and make, please? This can happen because previously the disk driver in 6.2 was treating your disk as generic ATA devices, but then support for your IDE controller was added into the driver, and now your BIOS has it in a weird mode. A dmesg from the 6.2 system would be useful as well. Ted