I have seen this problem on the questions list since 5.0 first can out as development version. Here 5.4 is now stable release and this problem is still not fixed. I have been using the same pc to test installing stable versions from miniinst.iso every version since 3.4 without any problems. Even 5.3-miniinst.iso worked just 2 weeks ago. The 5.4 stable does not have a miniinst.iso file so this time I used the disc1.iso to burn the install cd from and when booting from this cd I now get no hard drive found message from sysinstall (standard install) menu. This sure looks very strange to me as I can put in the cd burned from the 5.3-miniinst.iso file and the system installs just fine. Only difference is using disc1 this time. Even though the md5 CHECKSUM matched I downloaded and reburned disc1.iso again just to verify it was good. Power management and APIC have been bios disabled since version FreeBSD 3.4 version so that is not the problem. I tried selecting safe option to boot and still get same error 'no hard disk found". My hard drive is an western digital 310100 on ata0 as master. When using this 5.4 install cd on other pc/ motherboard/ hard drive combos I get same error. I think there is something wrong with the build process of the disc1.iso file. The miniinst.iso must be build using a different canned script that does not incorporated the bug that is in the disc1 build. Maybe the .ISO builds team needs to take a look at this problem. And to continue on with this thought why does 5.4 NOT have a miniinst.iso file?????
On Sat, 14 May 2005, fbsd_user wrote:> I have seen this problem on the questions list since 5.0 first can out as > development version. Here 5.4 is now stable release and this problem is > still not fixed. I have been using the same pc to test installing stable > versions from miniinst.iso every version since 3.4 without any problems. > Even 5.3-miniinst.iso worked just 2 weeks ago. The 5.4 stable does not have > a miniinst.iso file so this time I used the disc1.iso to burn the install cd > from and when booting from this cd I now get no hard drive found message > from sysinstall (standard install) menu. This sure looks very strange to me > as I can put in the cd burned from the 5.3-miniinst.iso file and the system > installs just fine. Only difference is using disc1 this time. Even though > the md5 CHECKSUM matched I downloaded and reburned disc1.iso again just to > verify it was good.What hardware (motherboard, cpus, memory, etc.) are you using?> Power management and APIC have been bios disabled since version FreeBSD 3.4 > version so that is not the problem. I tried selecting safe option to boot > and still get same error 'no hard disk found". My hard drive is an western > digital 310100 on ata0 as master. When using this 5.4 install cd on other > pc/ motherboard/ hard drive combos I get same error.You can hit Scroll Lock and use the arrow keys or page up/down to look at the boot messages. Near the bottom of the output should be the disk probe -- this may have more details. If not, try booting and selecting the "verbose boot" option.> I think there is something wrong with the build process of the disc1.iso > file. The miniinst.iso must be build using a different canned script that > does not incorporated the bug that is in the disc1 build. Maybe the .ISO > builds team needs to take a look at this problem.The only difference is the files included in the mkisofs run. The exact same files are used.> And to continue on with this thought why does 5.4 NOT have a miniinst.iso > file?????That's a good question :-) I didn't realize we hadn't made one. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of fbsd_user > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:54 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG > Cc: stable@freebsd.org > Subject: 5.4 install disc1 will not find hard drive >> > Power management and APIC have been bios disabled since > version FreeBSD 3.4 > version so that is not the problem. I tried selecting safe > option to boot > and still get same error 'no hard disk found". My hard drive > is an western > digital 310100 on ata0 as master. When using this 5.4 install > cd on other > pc/ motherboard/ hard drive combos I get same error. > > I think there is something wrong with the build process of the > disc1.iso > file.I don't think there is anything wrong with the build process of disc1.iso. I think instead that someone made a change in the atapi driver that broke this. I have a Intel Desktop Motherboard VC820 that this exact thing happened to. In my case, I fortunately was running a Hipoint RAID card in it so the only thing that got wacked was the system now does not recognize that there is a CDROM on the secondary onboard IDE controller. Last week I had it running FreeBSD 4.11 just fine. (not on the RAID controller) I had assumed that using the RAID controller made it so that the onboard ATAPI controller had some problem, but after seeing this post it is clear that they broke the driver. DO you want to file a PR or should I? Ted