From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jun 13 5:27:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx.unesp.br (armstrong.unesp.br [200.145.1.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FAF37B431 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 05:27:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Spamassassin Check (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.unesp.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2D75C2AF; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:27:49 -0300 (BRT) Received: from civitate.ai.unesp.br (civitate.ai.unesp.br [200.145.2.12]) by mx.unesp.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEEE15C2AF; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:27:48 -0300 (BRT) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:23:56 -0300 (BRT) From: Eduardo Damato X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Subject: Re: Hard Disk not found In-Reply-To: <20020612144631.GD78644@cicely5.cicely.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=8.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.11 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 On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:20:07AM -0300, Eduardo Damato wrote: > > This is my first message to this list. I currently have 5 DS20 > > alphaservers running alpha linux, and am quite unhappy with it because of > > memory leakage, stateful netfilter problems and many unaligned traps... > > So I am thinking of taking up FreeBSD on my servers to see how it works. > > The problem is that I am now having problems with installing it on > > the DS20s ... > > I boot normally with FreeBSD for Alpha CD, but when I try to find the HDs > > the installation program reports that no HD was found in the system. This > > is very strange since SRM reports dbk100 and dkb200 as present on the > > system. > > 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? > > You need to wipe out the partitiontable. > Linux does something that FreeBSD's sysinstall doesn't like. Thank you Guys! You were right, I booted the system with linux and wiped the partition table, and then FreeBSD found all hard disks. Now I have already installed it 4.5 and am trying to learn more about this OS. BTW, does anyone know when 4.6 is getting released for alpha? Thanks Again! Eduardo > > -- Eduardo Damato Analista de Redes - GRC Assessoria de Informática - UNESP email: damato@unesp.br fone: (11) 252-0577 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message