Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:20:39 -0800 (PST) From: andy@mini.Chicago.COM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Acer-Altos 800p/7000p Message-ID: <m107jV9-00022SC@mini.Chicago.COM>
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD on one of these machines for a friend. It's a PCI and EISA machine that has a backplane with the cpu on a card. Also, it's got a built in adaptec 7870 scsi interface. No matter what I do, the OS can't see the hard disk . . . well, actually that's not quite right. I tried installing 2.2.8 and it installed after much grief. After the installation though, it would never boot up again (off the HD). I've tried changing the CMOS and EISA configurations till I'm blue in the face and still it won't see the HD (in the boot sequence it dies when it tries to set the root device). I thought maybe I'd try 3.0 but it's the same. I'm at a loss. Every installation since 1.1.5 has always been pretty much a 1, 2, 3, done type of operation. Until this box. I've never dealt with EISA so maybe that's the problem but really I think it's just hardware that isn't gonna be usable for this. On a related note, I've got a 3c905B in PCI slot one. I set the cmos and EISA to use interrupt 10 for that slot. Neither 2.2.8 nor 3.0 can see the card (the one successful install was with a 3c509 that had other problems so it was swapped). Any suggestions (including throw the thing out the window :-) would be appreciated. Thanks Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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