From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 12:05:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E3C316A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:05:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpq3.home.nl (smtpq3.home.nl [213.51.128.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31DA43D39 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@cc110821-a.assen1.dr.home.nl) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=56642 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AlCyi-0004Og-5h for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:05:00 +0100 Received: from cc110821-a.assen1.dr.home.nl ([217.120.250.203]:33162) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AlCyh-0002DZ-AA for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:04:59 +0100 Received: by CC110821-A.assen1.dr.home.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B12975FA5D; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:05:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:05:01 +0100 From: Ben Koopmanschap To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040126200501.GA517@topjaklont.mydomain.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: "No disks found!" in Sysinstall despite of supported IDE Controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:05:02 -0000 Hello Everybody! I have a Pentium 4 2,66 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB UDMA HardDisk which in Linux is recognized to have a Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (IDE). For more details about the chipset and other things, one can eventually visit: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d845gbv/matrix.htm (please see the right column). On my Hard Disk I have the following partition scheme: 1st primary partition --> Fedora Core 1 (Linux) 2nd primary partition --> Swap Partition 3rd primary partition --> Linux From Scratch 4th partition --> extended partition 5th logical partition --> Swap 6th logical partition --> Linux From Scratch (for experimental purposes) 7th logical partition --> Swap 8th logical partition --> Linux From Scratch (for experimental purposes either) 9th logical partition --> Swap I am bothering you with this scheme because I'm not quite sure it has to do with my problem, but maybe the information will help you to assist me.;) AFAIK, my hardware is supported by FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2. I downloaded the iso's of both the releases of FreeBSD (4.9 and 5.2), burnt them on CD-ROM and tried to install a FreeBSD on my system. Unfortunately, with both releases I totally get stuck when I in Sysinstall choose for "Begin a standard installation.." After Sysintall said to me it is going to try to find my hard disk, I get the error message: "No disks found! ..." (followed by the message that I have to check if my storage controller was properly been probed by the kernel). After several attempts and having seen the kernel coming up, I ensured myself that the kernel probed my controller properly. Though my hard disk is not recognized! Of course I have tried to enable/disable several drivers in the kernel configuration menu (which I only was able to with the 4.9 - release), but none of all tried combinations did work. I start to get a little desperate now, so I hope very hopefully that someone on this list can point me in the right direction. Thanks anyway for your attention! With regards, Ben Koopmanschap