On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:15:49AM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: > 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...
The bios seems to recognize the drive allright, and so does the boot loader. But the bios is quite old, so I'll give it a try. 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
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