Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:35:23 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Stephen Krauth <stephenk@stephenk.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "No disks found!" when installing 4.3 on Thinkpad Message-ID: <200108231535.f7NFZNR29456@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:28:19 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108222222510.59210-100000@azazel.inside.killermartian.com>
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> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:28:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Stephen Krauth <stephenk@stephenk.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm installing FreeBSD 4.3 on a Thinkpad 600 (which according to the > laptop compatibility list works great with FBSD), and when I try to make a > partition I get the "No disks found!" message. Strangely enough it sees > the cdrom, so the problem isn't with the ATA interface in general. > > During the install I go into UserConfig and disable everything but ATA (I > compared IRQ and I/O settings with Windows and they match), floppy, serial > & parallel ports, keyboard, ps/2, syscons, pccard and math-co. Here are > the pertinent statements during boot: > > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata0-master: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr > ata0-master: identify failed > acd0: CDROM <CRN-8241B> at ata0-slave useing PIO4 > > Any ideas? Does anyone think I should risk upgrading the BIOS? I'm > pretty desperate since I just bought this thing used specifically for > FreeBSD... OK. This is being typed on a 600E (not quite the same thing, but close), and it built and ran 4.3-Release just fine, but the ThinkPad has its oddities (as do almost all laptops seem to). First, you can't boot an installed system from the 4.3 installation CD. That problem has been addressed and the 4.4 CD should not have the problem. Your message does not make it entirely clear when you get the failure. in the installation procedure. The best (only?) way to boot it is to use the installation floppies. Are you doing this? As far as the UserConfig issues, I'd suggest removing all PC cards and skipping the UserConfig stuff. The kernel should boot just fine that way. It certainly should see the disk as ad0 and you should be able to use fdisk to partition it. (I am referring to fdisk in the sysinstall procedure.) I realize that doing cut and paste is not an option, but getting the output of the system probe would be very nice. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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