RES: amd64/120081: Hard drive not found during install FreeBSD 7.0 - RC1

[Julian Stacey]

I'm cc'ing this to freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org as thread started there,
& it needs ideas beyond mine. 
Though Sergio top posted,
My latest comments at bottom as per list convention.

Reference:
> From:		"Sergio Lima" <sergioalimajr at gmail.com> 
> Date:		Thu, 8 May 2008 12:56:40 -0400 
> Message-id:	<00c801c8b12c$7e8d3580$7ba7a080$@com> 

"Sergio Lima" wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> I using your suggestion, but don’t solve my problem.
> 
> I getting last version of the ISO (7.0-Release amd64), and starting new
> process of the install, but the results is same.
> 
> You have new suggestion or orientation to me solve this problem?
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: Julian H. Stacey [mailto:jhs at berklix.org] 
> Enviada em: segunda-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2008 10:10
> Para: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
> Cc: Sergio Lima; freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
> Assunto: Re: amd64/120081: Hard drive not found during install FreeBSD 7.0 -
> RC1 
> 
> Sergio Lima wrote:
> > 
> > >Number:         120081
> > >Category:       amd64
> > >Synopsis:       Hard drive not found during install FreeBSD 7.0 - RC1
> > >Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
> > >Release:        FreeBSD 7.0 - RC1
> 
> > I doing download of ISOs of FreeBSD 7.0 - RC1 to install in my laptop
> (Toshiba A215-S4747), but after boot from CD the system install don't found
> Hard Drive (SATA2 200GB). How to solve this problem?
> 
> Check MD5 of cdrom mage & tell list if OK or not.
> Do a verbose boot
> it offers you 7 options
> Try
> 	3	Safe mode
> or
> 	5	Verbose
> or if you want Safe And Verbose
> 	6	Escape & then eg
> 			set boot_verbose="yes"
> & set other Safe settings you can pick from here:
> 	http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#loader.conf
> 
> -- 
> Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux.
> http://berklix.com
> 

Sergio,
Using full release is better than RC, well done,
but you didnt answer questions above inc.  Did you check the MD5 ? etc

PS Is your BIOS configured OK ? Can other OS eg BSD/MS/Linux see SATA ?

Julian
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