Hi, this is a re-post of a thread started on July 31st. It was somehow lost by the discussion software: the thread was not returned when doing searches, and I was afraid that it was lost "forever". I decided to re-post it hoping that more people could read it and possibly help me. Here it is how it went...
__________________________________________________________________ Hello everybody, I have been administrating linux servers for 7 years and I thought it was time to try another (Unix) flavour, so I downloaded Opensolaris to install it. The boot from CD is ok but the installer does not detect my hard disks. I see this is a "common" problem, but none of the suggestion I found here was the good one for me. Attached files are the output of hwls and lspci -nnvv when running Fedora 8, after BIOS upgrade to F12, the current firmware release. All information are there, but just to let this thread be searchable, my mobo is a Gigabyte Technology, full of VT chipsets, and my HDs are a Hitachi Deststar and a Quantum Fireball. Both are IDE, but the system sees ATA disks - and I have found no way to make BIOS access them in legacy mode. Any suggestion, even if duplicated :-) , will be greatly appreciated. Bye Massimiliano __________________________________________________________________ Response from tunla Posted: Aug 1, 2008 9:05 AM in response to: sblob Hi, If you have the drives attached to a VIA "RAID" controller , I recommend that you move them to the "default" IDE0, IDE1 channells that every MOBO is supposed to have. Even VIA must conform to the "PC Standard" dont they ? The opensolaris2008.05 live CD has a DEVICE DRIVER detection program on the desktop when you boot it , What does it say ? //Lars __________________________________________________________________ Response from sblob Posted: Aug 4, 2008 2:23 PM in response to: tunla Hello Lars, your question lead me to find another problem: I can install temporary routes and perform DNS query from a root terminal, but when I launch firefox (running as jack user) it can't perform name resolution and so I could not connect to this forum. Anyway, I ran the device driver detection program, but could not save its output to a file (is it possible? Notice that in that moment I could not surf the net) so I report here the interesting lines: DVD VIA Technologies, Inc VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE driver pci-ide WAITEC SAURUS driver sd MATSHITA DVD.ROM driver sd Storage VIA Technologies, Inc VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE driver pci-ide I did not forget anything: no devices found for section "Storage" I found the user manual of my mobo: it has no scsi channells, only two IDE. No jumpers or whatever to set channels to scsi/ide mode. BIOS shows them as IDE, and I can enable or disable them (they're enabled, it sound obvious but...) For what concerning the conductor cables, they can be set to ATA66/100/133, or ATA33 or Auto. Hope this helps Max P.S. the driver detection program reports 2 drivers not installed: the game port and the sound device. Nothing to do with my problem, I suppose -- This message posted from opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: LSPCI_F12 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 9095 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080902/9efd675b/attachment.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: HWCONF_F12 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 13354 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080902/9efd675b/attachment-0001.obj>
