install problems for freeBSD 6 on tyan i7520
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 8 08:11:18 PST 2005
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 08:47 am, ke.han wrote:
> I have a new server built around the Tyan i7520 motherboard. I am
> having a tremendously difficult time getting freeBSD 6 to find a hard
> drive to install to.
> I have a floppy connected to the mainboard through a separate controller
> and a CD connected through a separate controller channel. This is
> standard for this board.
>
> I have tried many scenarios for connecting a single hard drive, such as:
> 1 - running the system with just one EIDE hard drive (+ floppy and CD)
> connected to the motherboard PATA controller.
> 2 - running the system with just one SATA hard drive (+ floppy and CD)
> connected to the motherboard SATA controller.
>
> In all cases (with many tries of different BIOS settings), the freeBSD
> installer always says it cannot find a hard drive. The BIOS sees it.
> The boot loader sees it. When I run lsdev from the phase 3 prompt, the
> drives seem to be there named just as the boot loader and BIOS see them.
> I just don't get it!!!! The installer seems brain dead.
> Yes, the hardware works. Installing Centos 4.2 and Windows 2003 Server
> works perfect in all these configurations.
lsdev in the loader uses the BIOS. The kernel is not able to use the BIOS to
talk to drives. Can you hook up a serial console and capture verbose boot
messages? We need some more details such as what kind of ATA controller you
are trying to use.
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