Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:39:44 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: kuuse@quik.guate.com (Juan Kuuse) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: "No disks found!" sysinstall problem Message-ID: <199903250039.TAA14580@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <003e01be763e$6bab9750$6d1e48d8@ps1.QUIK> from Juan Kuuse at "Mar 24, 99 03:36:47 pm"
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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? > fips.exe woun't work for FAT32 partitions, will it? I thought it did. > 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? > 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." What information about your drive scrolls by as the kernel starts up? Is your drive IDE or SCSI? > 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
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