Dell R210 "no disks found"

[Barrett Clark]

Jaime,

If you are using the on board controller, try changing the BIOS
settings between AHCI and ATA.  An issue you may have with ATA, the
internal DVDROM may not work.  I always had an external USB CDROM so I
can't say for certain.

Hope that helps.

Barrett W. Clark

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Jaime Kikpole <jkikpole at cairodurham.org> wrote:
> I am attempting to install FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 from a CD onto a Dell
> R210 server.  When I boot and run fdisk from sysinstall (under
> "Custom"), it tells me "No disks found!" and then points me to the
> hardware guide.  Nothing in the hardware guide really seems to apply.
>
> Any one else get FreeBSD installed on an R210?  Is there a BIOS
> setting that I need to check or something?  I've spent about a week on
> this and will need to return both R210s soon if I can't get them
> working.
>
> Thanks,
> Jaime Kikpole
>
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