Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 13:43:39 -0400 From: Jason Sabella <jsabella@ic.sunysb.edu> To: Neil Ludban <n-ludban@onu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New information... Message-ID: <3527C2CB.B1CA883B@ic.sunysb.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405130518.25544A-100000@austin.onu.edu>
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Hi Neil. I have the Gateway 2000 G6266 with the 6.4GIG hdd and the Promise Ultra DMA like you had said. I'm not sure if you saw some older messages of mine, but I'm trying to install it onto the empty 2.1 GIGS at the end of the disk(The first 2.1 GIGS is for DOS's C partition and the middle 2.1 GIGS is for DOS's D partition). But anyways, FreeBSD can't read the controller. When I go to install FreeBSD from the CD-ROM, I run install.bat, which executes the line: fbsdboot.exe -D kernel You had said to add the -current parameter, but it doesn't recognize such a parameter. Is this where you wanted me to type it in or is it somewhere else? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Jason Sabella --- Neil Ludban wrote: > > This looks like the exact same setup we've got on some Gateway machines > here at school. Assuming yours is the same, the 6.4G disk is on a Promise > Ultra DMA IDE controller (or some buzzwords to that effect), which is not > supported in -stable. Last time I checked, it was recognized and useable > (but didn't support all the features) in -current. > > Depending on what you want to use your computer for (and how reliable you > need it to be), you could install -current, or add a smaller IDE drive. > Adding another drive may require you to remove the CD or Zip drive, or add > it to the motherboard's primary IDE. I haven't tried this to see what the > BIOS thinks of all the drives. I did install to a Zip disk, but could not > get it to boot, and am trying to get a kernel on a floppy to run off the > Zip disk, but that's not working either... > > --Neil > > On 5 Apr 1998, Jason Sabella wrote: > > Hi Doug. Since like I said in my last message it was reading the zip > > disk, I figured I would remove the zip disk and see what would happen. > > I did, and went to install FreeBSD. Right before the screen where it > > usually goes to fdisk, it instead said: > > > > "NO DISKS FOUND! Please verify that your disk conroller is being > > properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the > > Documentation menu for clues in diagnosing this type of problem" > > > > Well, I did that. And I checked to see if there were any conflicts with > > anything called "disk controller" in the kernel config, and there > > aren't. Also, I saw in the doc that wdc# things have to do with disk > > controllers. So I watched the screen at boot up, and it says: > > > > wdc0 not found at 0x1f0 > > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > > > > I don't know what that means, but maybe it will help. Please tell me > > any suggestions so that it will read my hdd. Thank you..Jason Sabella > > > > --- > > > > Doug White wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jason Sabella wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Doug. I only have the one hard 6.4 GIG hard drive. I don't know > > > > what that "wd2" is. Is that possibly a wrong partition? Is there a way > > > > to change it to a different "wd" in the install program(if such a thing > > > > exists). My current configuration is this: > > > > > > You should be prompted before going into fdisk for which disk you want. > > > > > > Post your boot message output again. > > > > > > > But the installation program still says: > > > > Disk name: wd2 <<----- > > > > Disk Geometry: 512 cyls/12 heads/32 sectors = 196608 sectors > > > > Offset Size End Name Ptype Desc Subtype Flags > > > > 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0 > > > > 32 196192 196223 wd2s1 2 fat 6 = > > > > 196224 384 196607 - 6 unused 0 > > > > > > Hm, 196608 * 512 bytes == 100663296 bytes, or a 100mb drive. > > > > > > Doug White | University of Oregon > > > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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