Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:23:56 -0300 (BRT) From: Eduardo Damato <damato@unesp.br> To: <ticso@cicely.de> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hard Disk not found Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206130920560.1075-100000@civitate.ai.unesp.br> In-Reply-To: <20020612144631.GD78644@cicely5.cicely.de>
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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
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