power off needed after install FreeBSD 4.9
Hello fbsd_user and all the other people! Yesterday I changed the connection of my hard disk to the primary controller. First it was connected as "Cable Select" (I thought it was "slave" but after opening my box it appeared to be connected as CS), so I changed the jumper setting of my Seagate Barracuda (80 GB) and after that it was recognized as "master" by my BIOS. By the way, I have a Intel Motherboard D845GEBV2 based Pentium 4. After this Sysinstall was indeed able to slice up and partitioning my hard disk, so your earlier advice was very helpful! Thanks again, because yesterday I succeeded to install FreeBSD 4.9 on my Pentium 4, which I consider to be a historical moment! Hurray, now I am a fully member of the FreeBSD community too! :) By the way, I did a very basic install, yet without X and the other compontents, but anyway the install procedure went without any problems! But... and now the story is going to be a little scary... ... after the installation I rebooted my PC instead of turning off the power first! A few hours later I concluded that not powering off my PC had severe consequences. I started my Linux From Scratch (same hard disk) which has become very unstable in X. I never had any problems with my Linux, but now X (and so KDE) was going down the whole time. First I thought it had to do with swapping my hard disk from CS to master (I installed Linux on my hard disk when it was CS), but I couldn't find any configuration errors or something. At that moment I decided to recompile my kernel, I couldn't start "make menuconfig" either, because it was complaining that it couldn't find ncurses (which was ridiculous, of course I installed ncurses!;). From that moment I started to fear of any hardware problems! Well, then I booted my PC with my Knoppix 3.2 live-CD and... yes! Also then X was very unstable! It simply stopped working. Finally I tried the install CD-ROM of Red Hat 9 and there even Anaconda (which works with X) wouldn't start and was complaining of certain 'cpio'-errors. I never had these problems before! On my other PC I googled and read a newsgroup posting about somebody who had installed FreeBSD on a Dell PC with the same motherboard. He got a reply of another guy who was saying that he had the same problem, but after a few days the problem was suddenly gone. "Maybe the PC had to get used to FreeBSD", he said something like that. I had to laugh first, but after a few hours of wondering and googling, I decided to turn my Pentium 4 off for five minutes... And you can believe it or not... but after turning on my PC again and having started Linux From Scratch, all the problems were indeed gone! At the moment I type this message in LFS and X didn't stop yet!;) Even rebooting (without turning off the power) in FreeBSD and then in LFS again, will not cause anu problems anymore! I am very satisfied till now of course, but I am very curious if anybody ever had this kind of the problem after installing FreeBSD too? Anyway, many thanks to you for your support!! Kindly regards, Ben Koopmanschap ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "No disks found!" in Sysinstall despite of supported IDE Controller
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:19:40PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > Friend > Your box is maxed out, and sysinstall is having hard time of > matching the PC's bios to what is really connected to the ide > controllers. Open up your box and unplug any slave HD on the primary > ide controller. Reconfigure the secondary ide controller so there is > only the cdrom drive on the master nipple. Check out the ide devices > jumpers so they are jumpered as master and not cs for cable select. > Go into your PCs bios and disable plug-n-play options, power > managerment options, set all ide controller options to auto, if you > have operating system type option, set it to other or just not > ms/windows, set all pci options to auto. Only use FBSD utilities on > the target HD. > > After the install completes and you are satisfied with your FBSD > system, then reconnect one ide drive at an time and reboot fbsd to > verify it does not effect it running. > > Good luck Hi fbsd_user and all the others! In the first place I want to thank you for your detailed advice! I think this will going to help me, but I have decided to wait till the next weekend with changing my Hard Disk from primary slave to primary master. Reason: at this moment (and it will last for the next few days) it is pretty cold and dry in the air, tomorrow it will be nearly freezing and they except some snow here in The Netherlands. So the weather conditions are not optimal for opening PC boxes; I won't risk damaging sensible objects with static electricity (if you know what I mean). Next weekend warmer and less dry weather is to be expected, so then I will work further at this problem. Of course you can expect a message from me when I changed my hard disk as master. By the way, my Pentium III has the hard disk connected as primary IDE Master, there I didn't have the problem with Sysinstall. Strange though that the store I bought my PC from did connect the hard disk as primary slave, although it is the only hard disk I have in my pentium 4... It isn't logical, eh? At the other hand, it has to be said that Linux and also Windows don't have problems with such a hardware configuration... But, anyway, I let you know how this story continues hopely very soon! Thanks a lot! With regards, Ben Koopmanschap ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
"No disks found!" in Sysinstall despite of supported IDE Controller
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:33:31PM +0100, Ben Koopmanschap wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:30:17AM -0800, Ryan Merrick wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Your problem is that all 4 of your bootable partitions are used on linux. > > Hello Ryan and others! > > In the first place I want to thank you for your reply! > > Yesterday night I tried the 4.9 - CD-ROM on my Pentium III (this is my > second PC which is the router of my little network). I noticed that on > this computer the hard disk is recognized (of course I didn't do an > install because it is my router to the internet ;) and just have seen > that on the Pentium III not all the primary partitions are being used. > > So I think you're right! I am encouraged now to remove the first primary > partition on my Pentium 4 (GoodBye Fedora Linux! :) and give FreeBSD the > oppurtunity to fill this partition with it's stuff! > > I hope that I will succeed the next hours and let you know about it! > > With many regards! > > Ben Koopmanschap Hi Ryan and others, Unfortunately I didn't succeed in installing FreeBSD 4.9 on my Pentium 4, although I deleted the first primary partition so I had a free primary partition for FreeBSD, which was necessary according to you. The partition table in that situation was : 3rd primary partition --> LFS 5.0 (Linux) 4th primary partition --> extended partition ... ... Then I tried to install it after I made a first primary partition (with FreeBSD as partition type), gave the first partition even the "bootable flag", but I didn't succeed either... How important it may be to have a free primary partition for installing FreeBSD, I think there is another problem. I have noticed now that when in Sysinstall I choose for "Begin a standard installation", the light of showing my hard disk activity at the front of my PC, is on and keeps burning instead of getting off after Sysinstall has tried to find my hard disk. I think that this is not good! So I hope (again very hopefully) that someone can help me further! By the way, yesterday night I took a look in the BIOS settings of my Pentium 4 and discovered that my IDE Hard Disk is connected as a primary slave to my first IDE Controller, while my DVD player is connected as a primary master to the same controller. I don't know if that this is a problem, for I don't know if FreeBSD demands to be installed on a primary master Hard Disk. Maybe this information is a hint for you with helping me to find a solution? With regards! Ben Koopmanschap ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "No disks found!" in Sysinstall despite of supported IDE Controller
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:30:17AM -0800, Ryan Merrick wrote: > Hi, > > Your problem is that all 4 of your bootable partitions are used on linux. Hello Ryan and others! In the first place I want to thank you for your reply! Yesterday night I tried the 4.9 - CD-ROM on my Pentium III (this is my second PC which is the router of my little network). I noticed that on this computer the hard disk is recognized (of course I didn't do an install because it is my router to the internet ;) and just have seen that on the Pentium III not all the primary partitions are being used. So I think you're right! I am encouraged now to remove the first primary partition on my Pentium 4 (GoodBye Fedora Linux! :) and give FreeBSD the oppurtunity to fill this partition with it's stuff! I hope that I will succeed the next hours and let you know about it! With many regards! Ben Koopmanschap > -- > -Ryan Merrick > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
"No disks found!" in Sysinstall despite of supported IDE Controller
Hello Everybody! I have a Pentium 4 2,66 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB UDMA HardDisk which in Linux is recognized to have a Intel 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (IDE). For more details about the chipset and other things, one can eventually visit: http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d845gbv/matrix.htm (please see the right column). On my Hard Disk I have the following partition scheme: 1st primary partition --> Fedora Core 1 (Linux) 2nd primary partition --> Swap Partition 3rd primary partition --> Linux From Scratch 4th partition --> extended partition 5th logical partition --> Swap 6th logical partition --> Linux From Scratch (for experimental purposes) 7th logical partition --> Swap 8th logical partition --> Linux From Scratch (for experimental purposes either) 9th logical partition --> Swap I am bothering you with this scheme because I'm not quite sure it has to do with my problem, but maybe the information will help you to assist me.;) AFAIK, my hardware is supported by FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2. I downloaded the iso's of both the releases of FreeBSD (4.9 and 5.2), burnt them on CD-ROM and tried to install a FreeBSD on my system. Unfortunately, with both releases I totally get stuck when I in Sysinstall choose for "Begin a standard installation.." After Sysintall said to me it is going to try to find my hard disk, I get the error message: "No disks found! ..." (followed by the message that I have to check if my storage controller was properly been probed by the kernel). After several attempts and having seen the kernel coming up, I ensured myself that the kernel probed my controller properly. Though my hard disk is not recognized! Of course I have tried to enable/disable several drivers in the kernel configuration menu (which I only was able to with the 4.9 - release), but none of all tried combinations did work. I start to get a little desperate now, so I hope very hopefully that someone on this list can point me in the right direction. Thanks anyway for your attention! With regards, Ben Koopmanschap ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
