From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 21:31:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA02586 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 21:31:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02571 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 21:31:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA01747; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:35:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 20:35:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ales Kubik cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE_Controllers_Problem In-Reply-To: <01bd1a05$0b1f4800$7f1357c1@eclipse.euba.sk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ales Kubik wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to have FreeBSD installed on my Pentium machine....I have tried to > boot from a floppy disk...in UserConfig I have successfully removed all the > potential conflicts, but after I had tried to continue with installation I > got message that 'no disks have been found'...There are two IDE controllers > in my machine, none of which is declared in BIOS as primary or secondary, > neither master or slave...could you please give me a hint to fix the > problem? Hit scroll lock and use the up arrow to find the wdc probe. Verify that it's finding the IDE controllers. If not, you need to tell your system to fix the positions of the IDE controllers. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major