I have seen this problem on the questions list since 5.0 first can out as development version. Here 5.4 is now stable release and this problem is still not fixed. I have been using the same pc to test installing stable versions from miniinst.iso every version since 3.4 without any problems. Even 5.3-miniinst.iso worked just 2 weeks ago. The 5.4 stable does not have a miniinst.iso file so this time I used the disc1.iso to burn the install cd from and when booting from this cd I now get no hard drive found message from sysinstall (standard install) menu. This sure looks very strange to me as I can put in the cd burned from the 5.3-miniinst.iso file and the system installs just fine. Only difference is using disc1 this time. Even though the md5 CHECKSUM matched I downloaded and reburned disc1.iso again just to verify it was good.
Power management and APIC have been bios disabled since version FreeBSD 3.4 version so that is not the problem. I tried selecting safe option to boot and still get same error 'no hard disk found". My hard drive is an western digital 310100 on ata0 as master. When using this 5.4 install cd on other pc/ motherboard/ hard drive combos I get same error. I think there is something wrong with the build process of the disc1.iso file. The miniinst.iso must be build using a different canned script that does not incorporated the bug that is in the disc1 build. Maybe the .ISO builds team needs to take a look at this problem. And to continue on with this thought why does 5.4 NOT have a miniinst.iso file????? _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
