[BUGA] Re: [sa-auug] FreeBSD Question

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

[Copying BUGA, who might have an interest]

On Thursday, 19 October 2006 at 19:48:01 +0930, Jeffrey P. Toth wrote:
> G'Day all,
>
>       Would anyone know how to point the FreeBSD  installation program
> to install on a ATA hard drive on a PCI IDE card instead of the
> motherboard primary IDE? Of course the install reports no HD's because
> there are none on the MB primary or secondary channels.

I haven't tried it, but I'd guess that the main issue is to get the
BIOS (either system or PCI card) to present the drive to the system as
a boot drive.

> I am at a loss on this one and my brain hurts.  The system sees the
> PCI card and reports the drives on it but wants to install on the
> regular hard drive.

When you say "the system", do you mean the motherboard BIOS or
FreeBSD?  If it's the latter, what drive name does the IDE-connected
drive get?

Greg
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