Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 02:19:00 -0600 From: Tom Jackson <tom@gorilla.net> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Drive not found Message-ID: <19980107021900.59921@TOJ.org> In-Reply-To: <01BD1AEC.0A2BF960@dal69-27.ppp.iadfw.net>; from Frank Griffith on Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 09:41:38PM -0600 References: <01BD1AEC.0A2BF960@dal69-27.ppp.iadfw.net>
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On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 09:41:38PM -0600, Frank Griffith wrote: > I am doing a floppy install of FreeBSD on a 486 DX2 66 computer. > I have one Western Digital Cavier 2340 hard drive, a 3½" and 5¼" > floppy drive, a Stealth Diamond 64 VLB 2 meg video card and a > generic Hayes compatible 14.4k modem. > > The HD Controller is built in on the motherboard and MSD says > it using IRQ14. Okay, cool I start the install from floppy disk and > get the the Kernel Configuration menu. I choose visual mode. > Since I have no SCSI drives I deactivate everything except the > floppy disk controller on IRQ6 and the IDE/ESDI/MFM disk > controller on IRQ14. I deactivate all network cards and the > MS Bus Mouse. I then press Q and Y to save the settings. > A few things are displayed on the screen but then disappear > to fast for me to see what got found. Anyway, I make it to the > Welcome to FreeBSD [2.2.5-Release] menu. I then choose > Begin a Novice installation. But two screens later I am > presented with the following message: > > Drives not found. Please verify that your disk controller is being > properly probed at boot time... > > Since the screen scrolls by too fast, is there a way I can > pause to see what exactly it is finding? Any other ideas? > > When you boot the `boot floppy' watch how your devices are probed. If you miss an important detail, when the boot is complete, press scroll lock and use the up cursor to examine the probed devices. Make sure that wdc0, the ide controller and wd0, the ide hard disk are probed correctly (ie looks reasonable). Don't worry about disabling devices you don't have, you can do that later when you have a bootable system. If you catch a problem in the system probe, reboot and enter -c to reconfigure the errant probe, exit and try the install. If you still are having problems, post those and you will succeed soon. Good luck Tom
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