Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:07:51 -0600 From: "Juan Kuuse" <kuuse@quik.guate.com> To: <cjclark@home.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "No disks found!" sysinstall problem Message-ID: <004701be76d1$408987b0$6d1e48d8@ps1.QUIK>
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Thanks for the answer! -----Original Message----- From: Crist J. Clark <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Juan Kuuse <kuuse@quik.guate.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 6:39 PM Subject: Re: "No disks found!" sysinstall problem >Juan Kuuse wrote, >> I have a 4 GB disk with win98 on the first 1 GB MSDOS partition, >> and trying to create a second 1.5 GB partition for FreeBSD, and a third >> FAT32 partition for windows. > >Why do you want two separate MS partitions? Just to make things easy for myself (following the instructions literally in 'The Complete FreeBSD'). Using sysinstall, I then will change the file system type to FreeBSD. > >> fips.exe woun't work for FAT32 partitions, will it? > >I thought it did. I can't make it work, but with Ranish partition manager it works fine. The advantage with fips is that easier to create a new partition without blowing the old one. Good for a newbie like me! :) > >> And when I run it, it hangs for a long time at the first "press any >> key"message, >> and then follows an error message: >> "Drive Initialization Failure: Errorcode 5 >> Interrupt 13h 00h returned an error code" >> and the program ends. >> >> So I use part.exe (Ranish Partition manager), where I can create 3 >> partitions. >> Anyhow, it will not let me modify the win98 partition settings. > >What settings are you trying to modify? The partition size. > >> When I try to install FreeBSD, I got the following error message: >> >> "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being >> properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the >> Documentation menu for clues on diagnosing this type of problem." >> >> Is this a problem due to the win98 partition? > >Hard to say, maybe you should... > >"Please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed at >boot time." At boot time, I just see the probing until the hard disk, then the sysinstall shows up, without me beeing able to confirm if the HD was probed correctly or not. > >What information about your drive scrolls by as the kernel starts up? >Is your drive IDE or SCSI? It's an IDE drive. > >> I would appreciate some help with this problem! > >This is more a 'freebsd-questions' matter. This response and followups >sent to questions. >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" 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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