Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 15:04:28 -0400 From: "Shaun Sabo" <shaun.bsd@gmail.com> To: "Jeremy Chadwick" <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller Message-ID: <be79767b0805011204r1a7aad67tf4f78d5363684f81@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080501182325.GA62281@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <be79767b0805011034l7b82327dp12637daa12598567@mail.gmail.com> <20080501182325.GA62281@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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I checked to make sure that the hard disks are not in raid configuration and there are not. i also checked and my bios are at the latest version available (A11). also this is an XPS 600 not 700 and i have the correct users manual in paper and digital formats. how would you like the dmesg to be presented? i dont think i have any way to writing it to a thumb drive or such devices from the installer. should i just take digital pictures? On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:34:53PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote: > > Im trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on a Dell XPS 600 desktop machine and > im > > having a lot of trouble with this. First I could not use USB keyboards > with > > the installer program (which is fine, i dont mind switching to PS2). > then > > once i got into the sysinstaller it does not detect my Hard Disks. i > also > > tried installing an old 6.2 cd that i had sitting around and remaking > world > > and kernel but when i installed the kernel and restarted to go into > single > > user mode the system could not mount the root filesystem. the > motherboard im > > using is a nvidia nforce4 with Serial ATA hard disks. Does anyone know > how > > to get FreeBSD 7.0 to recognize my hard drives? > > Re: USB keyboard: USB support on FreeBSD is spotty. That said, I've > never run into problems getting FreeBSD to detect and use a USB keyboard > (other USB devices are a different story). You'd need to provide some > dmesg(8) output to verify, but I know that's going to be difficult until > you can get FreeBSD installed. > > Re: SATA disks: I can assure you that FreeBSD works fine with SATA disks > connected to an nForce 4 chipset, because I've used them myself with no > issue. Chances are there's a BIOS setting that's causing mayhem, or > you may be using a RAID array of some sort (since the XPS700 is one of > those "gamer lozlozlz" systems). > > The manual for this system is here: > > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps700/ > > Screenshots of the BIOS are here: > > http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/09/04/Dell_XPS_700_review/5 > > Are you using RAID at all on this system? If so, chances are that's why > it doesn't see your array. > > Finally, if available, I'd try a BIOS update. Googling for results > shows that system has quite a large number of issues with its BIOSes, > and Dell has been fairly good about providing updates to fix problems. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > >
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