Re: FreeBSD 6.4 Alpha doesn't see hard disk on DS10L
"Thomas Laus" <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:16:53 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.alpha |
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| Organization | ABB |
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> I had no problem installing Linux on a DS10L from local CD-ROM. > FreeBSD 6.4 boots but doesn't see the hard drive. > Setup gets to the part about partitioning and says there are no disks. > Advise? > (I realize -- development is stopped here.) > Most of the time it is because another operating system, especially VMS, was used on the hard drive before. I always do a 'DD if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000' on any hard drive that is new to my Alpha. Boot your Alpha from a fixit image and wipe the beginning of the previously used hard drive. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"