From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jun 13 4: 5:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C77737B410 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 04:05:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cartman ([213.107.250.133]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020613110145.YUQZ295.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@cartman>; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:01:45 +0100 From: "Steven" To: "'Eduardo Damato'" Cc: Subject: RE: Hard Disk not found Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:01:46 +0100 Message-ID: <000001c212c9$b5e33cd0$0201a8c0@cartman> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Does anybody have any ideas on how to get the hds recognized? Is there any >tweaks to be applied? Do I have to set any special variable on SRM to have >them found? I had the same problem with my alphastations which previously ran Linux and Tru64. For future reference it's generally more helpful if you provide more information about a problem, such as a verbose boot output (assuming you are using a serial console and can cut'n'paste). If however your problem is that once you start sysinstall you get: da0: start 0, end 2050859, size 2050860 da0c: start 0, end 4294967295, size 0 da0: raw partition size != slice size da0: start 0, end 2050859, size 2050860 da0c: start 0, end 4294967295, size 0 da0: invalid primary partition table: no magic or something similar then: lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq Message qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk xNo disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being x xproperly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the x xDocumentation menu for clues on diagnosing this type of problem. x tqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq(100%)qqu x [ OK ] x mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq[ Press enter or space ]qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj you need to wipe the partition tables on the disk. I tried doing this from the fixit prompt using the cd but it didn't work. If you still have a *nix os on the disk the boot it up and do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 count=10 (where da0 is the disk to do). If not, you will need to stick it in another system or find a friend with one. The install went fine after that for me. The machine has been fairy stable in the 3 months I've had it, although it has crashed a couple of times whilst running mysql under heavy load. Steven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message