Subject: Re: FreeBSD
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 23:42:55 AKDT
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Adam Elkins wrote:
> I'm trying to get FreeBSD on a 486 (yes, another one), I get as far as
> the /stand/sysinstall Main Menu
> But as soon as I get there, my HDD LED comes on and stays on...when I go
> to run fdisk, it says it can't see any HDD....I read the f'n manuel, and
> it says nothing about this type of thing. I'm guessing it's a module or
> something....I need guidance.
What kind of hard drive controller do you have? Are the drives physically
set up correctly? (ie, if SCSI, are they terminated correctly; if IDE,
are the master/slave jumpers correctly set, etc.)
This sounds like a hardware problem...
Mike
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