Hi > I'm trying to put FreeBSD on an older machine, that currently has Linux > installed. It is a 1 GHz Athlon with a Via KT266 chipset. The disk > controller is a VIA 8233. > > The problem is that FreeBSD does not find the harddisk when booting > from > the install CD. The boot loader does, though. This happens both with > 5.4-RELEASE and 6.0-beta1.
I'm new working on unix/freeBSD. I had the same problem and solved it upgrading the Motherboard's BIOS. I hope it can help you... > Going to a fixit shell and doing a 'atacontrol list' gives no devices > on > the channel the harddisk is on. I've tried 'atacontrol reinit 0', but > no > luck. I can't get the kernel to recognize the disk. > > If I boot from the harddisk, Linux loads just fine. > > Any thoughts? > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain > text. > public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
