Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:44:50 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failure to boot after installing 4.2 on HP NetServer Message-ID: <20010125114450.C63352@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010124132849.00a62970@rlnt.net>; from "Nick Tonkin" on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:29:32PM -0800 References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010124132849.00a62970@rlnt.net>
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* Nick Tonkin <publicn@rlnt.net> [20010125 00:30]: writing on the subject 'Failure to boot after installing 4.2 on HP NetServer' Nick> Hello, Nick> I just installed FreeBSD 4.2 on an HP NetServer E50 with no problems, Nick> until rebooting. Even added somne packages, configures some daemons, etc. Nick> Nick> Now the box won't boot. Nick> Nick> Now, the box goes into its POST, going through Adaptec's SCSI-Select Nick> Utility (v1.31s6) for the Adaptec 2940i and finding two HDDs on SCSI Nick> IDs 0 and 1, and then through a second SCSI-Select utility (v1.32) for Nick> the Adaptec 2940U/UW and finding the HP C1533A DAT tape drive Nick> (supported by FreeBSD according to the docs) on ID 3, and then ... Nick> nothing. Nick> Nick> Just a single-character flashing cursor. Nick> Nick> It _looks_ like it is not even getting to boot off the hard disk, so I Nick> can't see how the new FreeBSD OS could directly be screwing it up, but Nick> I don't know. Nick> Nick> I spent an hour with HP tech support and they verified (?) that the Nick> SCSI devices are all okay (since they are recognized) but then could Nick> not help since they only support SCO UNIX. Nick> Nick> Any clues, please? Hi Nick, This is a wild guess though.... If you try removing the second SCSI adapter (or is it onboard?) what happens? I'm assuming that your root fs is on the first. As wild as it is, I was running FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE on an HP Netserver E60 quite comfortably until I decided to update to 4.2-STABLE and things got bad - I cannot access my T20 tape anymore. I did seek help from this list and there are some very wonderful people who tried to assist me but still it did not work. That is a tape i backed up with 2 days before updating to 4.2-STABLE!!! So I blame 4.2 and not the tape. I am now contending with doing a backup on another E60 that is running 4.0-RELEASE which apparently is okay... What were you running before 4.2?? -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. -The Washington Post Magazine, 9 June, 1985 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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