"No disks found!" in Sysinstall despite of supported IDE Controller

[Ryan Merrick]

Ben Koopmanschap wrote:
> 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
> 
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Hi,

Your problem is that all 4 of your bootable partitions are used on linux.

-- 
-Ryan Merrick
sandshrimp at comcast.net