From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 20 1:22: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from reimari.net (mail.phpoint.net [212.63.10.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D280F37B417 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 01:22:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from 212-246-4-106.catv.tpo.fi (212-246-4-106.catv.tpo.fi [212.246.4.106]) by reimari.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA24377 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:38:26 +0200 (EET) Received: by 212-246-4-106.catv.tpo.fi with Microsoft Mail id <01C1A19E.D41A90A0@212-246-4-106.catv.tpo.fi>; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:40:07 +-200 Message-ID: <01C1A19E.D41A90A0@212-246-4-106.catv.tpo.fi> From: Pekka Samuli Laine To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Installation freezes -- please help Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:39:53 +-200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I try to run ide_conf.exe from the FreeBSD 4.4 CD-ROM, I get a following error: Non-compatible or missing Hard Disk Controller! Also when I try to install FreeBSD 4.4 (from CD-ROM) the first device probing goes allright but everything freezes after this line: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c At this point a small sound comes from the hard disk as though it tried to read something from there. My motherboard specs are here: http://www.ecsusa.com/ecsusa/www.ecs.com.tw/products/p6bapap.htm I have one large IDE hard-disk which has 7560 Mbytes of space. It uses LBA mode in BIOS. Drive C is primary DOS (1890 Mbytes) which has Windows95 installed in it. Drive D is extended DOS (1875 Mbytes) which is reserved for Windows95 programs. The rest of the disk is unused and I had hoped that I could install FreeBSD on that space. Could this mean that I have incompatible hard disk controller? How do I know which hard disk controller I have? Is there anything I can do? PSL BTW: I once had WindowsNT installed on the same disk with Windows95 but then I removed NT completely. I still have the NT OS loader, though. Could the NT OS loader mess with the FreeBSD installer? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message