Re: SCSI not found during install - help!
You can play with your BIOS settings. In the last part of the installer it will give a list of found drives. You should be using a generic kernel for the install. However in all this, with only 32 MB RAM, it seems a bit pointless. You would do better spending a few dollars for a more current system board you can add some memory to, as you should have at LEAST 64 MB, but I rarely have a system with less than 512 MB if not more. -Derek At 02:32 PM 1/23/2007, John D. Reeve wrote: Hello All, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a system consisting of an Ampro Littleboard 486 with 32 Mb ram, a built-in Adaptec 6360 SCSI controller, an 18.2 Gb Quantum Atlas III SCSI drive (50 pin narrow), a 256 Mb IDE flash drive containing MS-DOS, and an IDE CD drive. I want FreeBSD to take over the entire SCSI drive. The SCSI drive has been low-level formatted using the software that came with the Ampro for the Adaptec controller. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 using three floppies (boot, kernel 1, kernel 2) and CD's containing the rest of the system. Here is the problem. After booting with the floppies and getting to the point where I'm supposed to select the drive for FreeBSD, the install program doesn't see the SCSI drive. It does see the IDE flash drive. The odd thing is that under MS-DOS, the fdisk program finds the SCSI drive and allows me to partition it, at least a 230 Mb piece of it. I can format this piece for DOS and copy files to it, so the drive does seem to be working. I have the BIOS configured to see the SCSI as the second hard drive in the system. According to the documentation with the Ampro, the BIOS can supposedly handle drives of this size or larger. Thanks for any help! Cheers, John R. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: SCSI not found during install - help!
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 15:32, John D. Reeve wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a system consisting of an Ampro > Littleboard 486 with 32 Mb ram, a built-in Adaptec 6360 SCSI controller, an > 18.2 Gb Quantum Atlas III SCSI drive (50 pin narrow), a 256 Mb IDE flash > drive containing MS-DOS, and an IDE CD drive. I want FreeBSD to take over > the entire SCSI drive. The SCSI drive has been low-level formatted using > the software that came with the Ampro for the Adaptec controller. I'm > trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 using three floppies (boot, kernel 1, kernel > 2) and CD's containing the rest of the system. Sounds like you're well prepared. > Here is the problem. After booting with the floppies and getting to the > point where I'm supposed to select the drive for FreeBSD, the install > program doesn't see the SCSI drive. It does see the IDE flash drive. The > odd thing is that under MS-DOS, the fdisk program finds the SCSI drive and > allows me to partition it, at least a 230 Mb piece of it. I can format > this piece for DOS and copy files to it, so the drive does seem to be > working. I have the BIOS configured to see the SCSI as the second hard > drive in the system. According to the documentation with the Ampro, the > BIOS can supposedly handle drives of this size or larger. DOS just uses BIOS calls to access the hard drive. FreeBSD and other real operating systems that expect decent drive performance use actual real drivers to access the hardware. In this case, the driver you need isn't enabled by default in recent versions of FreeBSD. You most likely want to use the aic(4) driver for your controller. Fortunately for you it _is_ included in the GENERIC kernel, but is just disabled in device.hints. To install, you'll need to escape to the boot loader prompt before the kernel is booted and type something like the following: set hint.aic.0.disabled="0" Then type "boot" to continue the normal bootup process. This is just off the top of my head and based on the aic(4) manpage and GENERIC and device.hints from my 6.2-RELEASE desktop; I haven't used your controller and I'm not 100% sure of the syntax for the preboot environment. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
