From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 13:29:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from world.tonkinresolutions.com (233-123.adsl6.netlojix.net [207.71.233.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B4A37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:29:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from dingo.rlnt.net ([192.168.0.16]) by world.tonkinresolutions.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02967 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:28:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from publicn@rlnt.net) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010124132849.00a62970@rlnt.net> X-Sender: nick@rlnt.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:29:32 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Nick Tonkin Subject: Failure to boot after installing 4.2 on HP NetServer Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I just installed FreeBSD 4.2 on an HP NetServer E50 with no problems, until rebooting. Even added somne packages, configures some daemons, etc. Now the box won't boot. Now, the box goes into its POST, going through Adaptec's SCSI-Select Utility (v1.31s6) for the Adaptec 2940i and finding two HDDs on SCSI IDs 0 and 1, and then through a second SCSI-Select utility (v1.32) for the Adaptec 2940U/UW and finding the HP C1533A DAT tape drive (supported by FreeBSD according to the docs) on ID 3, and then ... nothing. Just a single-character flashing cursor. It _looks_ like it is not even getting to boot off the hard disk, so I can't see how the new FreeBSD OS could directly be screwing it up, but I don't know. I spent an hour with HP tech support and they verified (?) that the SCSI devices are all okay (since they are recognized) but then could not help since they only support SCO UNIX. Any clues, please? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message