Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:39:53 +-200 From: Pekka Samuli Laine <pekkasamuli@koti.soon.fi> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Installation freezes -- please help Message-ID: <01C1A19E.D41A90A0@212-246-4-106.catv.tpo.fi>
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If I try to run ide_conf.exe from the FreeBSD 4.4 CD-ROM, I get a following error: Non-compatible or missing Hard Disk Controller! Also when I try to install FreeBSD 4.4 (from CD-ROM) the first device probing goes allright but everything freezes after this line: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c At this point a small sound comes from the hard disk as though it tried to read something from there. My motherboard specs are here: http://www.ecsusa.com/ecsusa/www.ecs.com.tw/products/p6bapap.htm I have one large IDE hard-disk which has 7560 Mbytes of space. It uses LBA mode in BIOS. Drive C is primary DOS (1890 Mbytes) which has Windows95 installed in it. Drive D is extended DOS (1875 Mbytes) which is reserved for Windows95 programs. The rest of the disk is unused and I had hoped that I could install FreeBSD on that space. Could this mean that I have incompatible hard disk controller? How do I know which hard disk controller I have? Is there anything I can do? PSL BTW: I once had WindowsNT installed on the same disk with Windows95 but then I removed NT completely. I still have the NT OS loader, though. Could the NT OS loader mess with the FreeBSD installer? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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