On Tuesday 08 November 2005 08:47 am, ke.han wrote: > I have a new server built around the Tyan i7520 motherboard. I am > having a tremendously difficult time getting freeBSD 6 to find a hard > drive to install to. > I have a floppy connected to the mainboard through a separate controller > and a CD connected through a separate controller channel. This is > standard for this board. > > I have tried many scenarios for connecting a single hard drive, such as: > 1 - running the system with just one EIDE hard drive (+ floppy and CD) > connected to the motherboard PATA controller. > 2 - running the system with just one SATA hard drive (+ floppy and CD) > connected to the motherboard SATA controller. > > In all cases (with many tries of different BIOS settings), the freeBSD > installer always says it cannot find a hard drive. The BIOS sees it. > The boot loader sees it. When I run lsdev from the phase 3 prompt, the > drives seem to be there named just as the boot loader and BIOS see them. > I just don't get it!!!! The installer seems brain dead. > Yes, the hardware works. Installing Centos 4.2 and Windows 2003 Server > works perfect in all these configurations. lsdev in the loader uses the BIOS. The kernel is not able to use the BIOS to talk to drives. Can you hook up a serial console and capture verbose boot messages? We need some more details such as what kind of ATA controller you are trying to use. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Tue Nov 08 2005 - 15:11:18 UTC
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