On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:54:55 +0000, Frank Shute <fr...@shute.org.uk> wrote: > I tried booting a FreeBSD CD & going into sysinstall & then fdisk but > it said it couldn't find any disks.
Ah! This means something like "the disk *really* can't be accessed". You can easily conclude from % dmesg | grep ^ad if any disk is present, or use % atacontrol list to see what's on the HDD controller. > freesbie.org is unfortunately down :( The diagnostic means of a bootable FreeBSD installation CD should be sufficient at first - to eleminate or confirm the idea that the disk is not present. Now, check settings in CMOS setup, check wires, eventually check hard disk in another system, and / or put another disk into the system you want to boot ("cross-checking") - the latter one not to install anything, but to see if the disk is recognized correctly. > I'm not using GENERIC but IIRC I've only stripped out NIC's etc. Then I think the only thing missing could be the ad driver or something it depends on, but that's nearly impossible to miss. :-) > I booted with booting verbose and it's showing this before it jumps to > the mountroot> prompt: > > ata1: SATA connect time=0ms > ata1: SIGNATURE: eb140101 > ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x4<ATAPI_MASTER> > ata1: reinit done .. > ata2: reiniting channel .. > ata2: SATA connect time=0ms > ata2: SIGNATURE: 00000101 > ata1: ahci_reset devices=0x1<ATA_MASTER> > ata2: reinit done .. > ata2: reiniting channel .. > > *repeats* I see you're using a SATA disk. I don't have such ones, so I'm not sure if they maybe require something in the kernel? > ATA PseudoRAID loaded PseudoRAID, only one disk? Hmmm... eventually check BIOS again. Finally, I think the problem occurs this way: The ad0 disk can't be recognized, so the access to ad0s1a won't work. You should try to get access to ad0. Maybe some cross-checking will help, just in case you're having a damaged hard disk... -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"