Bug 20085

On 21 Jul 2000 13:59:07 GMT, Feisal.O.Mohammed@uwi.tt wrote:

> 	When booting with the install disks for 4.0 RELEASE, and
> 	selecting either upgrade or normal install the disk connected
> 	to the Advansys controller is not seen when the partition editor
> 	is entered.  The boot messages show the controller and disk being
> 	recognized but only the disk connected to the IDE controller
> 	is visible in the partion editor.

Is the dmesg(8) output which you sent from the 4.0-RELEASE kernel?  If
not, please try to send _that_ rather.

Did this happen in the FDISK partition editor or in the disk label
screen?  The FDISK partition editor is applied to each disk in
succession that you select from a check-box dialogue box.  Unless
there's actually a serious problem with sysinstall, it sounds to me like
you just forgot to select both drives from that check-box dialogue.

Are you saying that the disk isn't available from the dialogue box.  If
so, which drive wasn't available?  I assume da0?

The disk label screen then allows you to label _all_ the disks that you
selected earlier.  The disks available are listed at the top of the
screen.  So if you'd gotten the selection right earlier, they'd both be
visible in this window.  But what you see here is not as significant as
what you see in that dialogue box.

Could you provide feedback?  I'm not an expert in this area, but I have
fallen into the trap of forgetting to select all the disks that I'm
interested in from the fdisk selection dialogue check-box list.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

Comment 2 Sheldon Hearn 2000-07-21 15:44:54 UTC

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