On Fri Sep 22 12:34:18 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 3. how do you verify that the disk driver is hosed?
>
> disk/fdisk claims it can't read the mbr:
>
> The disk you selected HAS NO master boot record on its first sector.
> (Perhaps it is a blank disk.)
> You need a master boot record to use the disk.
> Should we install a default master boot record?
> Install mbr (y,n)[no default]:
when you boot to freebsd, do you see "MBR" printed first thing?
if you don't then there the plan9 MBR is not installed.
i went through this two weeks ago with an unsupported sata chipset.
unfortunately, i didn't take notes.
one thing that is definately wrong nis the drive letters. if you
have a sata disk, then the drive letter should be know as /dev/sdE0.
i would try booting from the floppy and interrupting the installer with
"!rc" then
cd /dev
cat sdctl
for(i in sd??){
echo $i
cat $i/ctl
}
should give some interesting results.
- erik
