Problems installing on Sager Laptop

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:18:01PM -0500, Jerry Sloan wrote:
> Jerry Sloan wrote:
> 
> >Brooks Davis wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:00:44PM -0500, Jerry Sloan wrote:
> >> 
> >>
> >>>Brooks Davis wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>>>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:49:40AM -0500, Jerry Sloan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>    
> >>>>
> >>>>>I am attempting to do an ftp install of FreeBSD release on an 
> >>>>>older Sager laptop. Pentium MMX. I go through the floppy part and 
> >>>>>when I am able to setup partitions it says No Disk found. The boot 
> >>>>>floppy finds the disk as disk1. Any and all help will be appreciated.
> >>>>>      
> >>>>
> >>>>You're going to have to provide a lot more information for use to do
> >>>>anything for you.
> >>>>
> >>>>Which version of FreeBSD are you using?  What do you mean by "The boot
> >>>>floppy finds the disk as disk1"?  Can you see anything that looks 
> >>>>like a
> >>>>disk drive or controler in the dmesg?
> >>>>    
> >>>
> >>>Sorry for not being more specific. I am trying to install 5.3 
> >>>Release over the net. When I boot from the boot floppy to do the 
> >>>setup one of the first things I see on the screen BIOS drive c: 
> >>>=disk1. I'm not sure if a controller or hard drive is showing in 
> >>>dmesg since it moves by so fast, and it isn't being created anywhere.
> >>>  
> >>
> >>
> >>Appearing in the BIOS means that the BIOS knows how to talk to it,
> >>nothing more nothing less.  For all we know it could be a clay-tablet
> >>printer/scanner system. :-)  It would be really nice if you could find a
> >>way to get the dmesg, but I'm not sure what sort of options you'll have.
> >>Perhaps a fixit floppy.
> >>
> >>Could you try 4.10 or a 4.11 RC?  It seems likely you have an ATA
> >>controller that we aren't supporting, but it's hard to say.  It's
> >>entirely possible it's supported in an older version and support was
> >>accidentally dropped because no one else has such a beast.  Certainly
> >>Pentium class laptops tend to be a bit weird.  I wouldn't really expect
> >>one to work well with 5.3.
> >>
> >I have 4.5 also, so I am trying that. You are probably right. I am 
> >only doing this so I can work on a CGI project propped up in bed in 
> >the evenings..hahahah
> >
> Ok, that didn't work either..but I did get this from when it was booting
> ata0-master timeout waiting for int
> ata0-master identity failed

Joy.  You might try e-mailing Soren (sos at freebsd.org) about this, but I
doubt it will be high on his priority list.  Just for grins, you might
try 3.5.1 or even 2.2.8 since you only need to download a few MB of
floppy images.  mirrorlist.freebsd.org will give you download
locations.

-- Brooks

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