RE: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not see disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:17:31 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dills wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Harris, James R wrote: Andy and I worked this out offline - workaround was to go to Options|Re-scan which caused the devices to show up in the sysinstall menu. I'm adding details here for future

Re: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not see disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/04/2012 23:02, Andy Dills wrote: However, once the system finishes booting and loads into sysinstall, and I go to partition the drives, I get No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being properly loaded at boot time. If you boot into 'Live CD' rather than the

Re: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not see disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18/04/2012, at 7:32, Andy Dills wrote: I've got a new supermicro server I'm trying to get FreeBSD on. It uses the Intel c602 chipset, and it's my understanding that support for that chipset (c60X) was recently added via the isci driver. Ok, great, that explains why 8.2-R and 9.0-R

RE: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not see disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-18 Thread Harris, James R
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:02:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dills a...@xecu.net To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not see disks that are recognized during boot I've got a new supermicro server I'm trying to get FreeBSD

RE: FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not see disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-18 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Harris, James R wrote: Andy and I worked this out offline - workaround was to go to Options|Re-scan which caused the devices to show up in the sysinstall menu. I'm adding details here for future reference. 1) C60x chipsets have the 6 traditional SATA ports, plus 4

FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not see disks that are recognized during boot

2012-04-17 Thread Andy Dills
I've got a new supermicro server I'm trying to get FreeBSD on. It uses the Intel c602 chipset, and it's my understanding that support for that chipset (c60X) was recently added via the isci driver. Ok, great, that explains why 8.2-R and 9.0-R didn't see the drives. So, I grabbed the memstick