From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 9:30: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB7615FBC for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA04780; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:23:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:23:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: dskaberna@mmm.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem In-Reply-To: <199908240628.XAA04965@gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 dskaberna@mmm.com wrote: > > > Here's one for you techies out there: > > I have a 500 Mhz Pentium III. I have 128 mb Ram, and a Maxtor 17gb ultra > IDE drive, and a Promise Ultra 66, ATA/66 PCI controller. I have Windoze > 98 as the primary OS, and wish to install FreeBSD as my sec. OS. I > partitioned my HD into two partitions: 8gb for Win and the remaining for > Unix. When I boot the Kernel, and it probes for my devices. It does not > find WD0 - my Hard Drive. At the end of the probe, is lists the error > something like this "isa_probe_'something'" and does not allow me to > proceed through the installation any furthere. It says that it could not > locate my Hard Drive. > > I think it has to be some sort of conflict. I also have a DVD-ROM drive > and a CD-RW drive. I hope this is enough detail for you. Let me know if > you can think of anything. I've found freebsd to be particularly sensative to incorrectly jumpered IDE devices. Make sure your master/slave is set properly. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message