Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:49:32 -0400 From: "Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk not found Message-ID: <3D075F7C.3000104@code-fu.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206121012580.525-100000@civitate.ai.unesp.br> <20020612144631.GD78644@cicely5.cicely.de>
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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. I had similar problems when I switched from SuSE to FreeBSD. The BSD slice from the earlier SuSE install did not work with FreeBSD. Really wiping everything and starting from scratch solved the problem. I'm running FreeBSD on aMiata and a Server 3300 and it runs perfectly! Good luck!!! -- Michael A. Smith <msmith@code-fu.com> Programmer at Large To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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