From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 12 7:45:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A07F937B401 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301:200:92ff:fe9b:20e7]) (authenticated bits=0) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5CEjVSm042956 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:45:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g5CEkXFJ079643 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:46:33 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) id g5CEkW9e079642; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:46:32 +0200 (CEST)?g (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:46:32 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Eduardo Damato Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk not found Message-ID: <20020612144631.GD78644@cicely5.cicely.de> Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely5.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 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, 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. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message