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Date:      Mon, 02 Jul 2001 14:09:34 -0000
From:      jessie@power-jessie.net
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help on HP Netserver E 45
Message-ID:  <9hpvau%2Bslg4@eGroups.com>

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Hello W Gerald,

Thanks it works! It booted on the SCSI harddisk.
But what is causing this to not automatically boot?
Do i have to change any SCSI settings or something..
What will i do to make it boot automatically?

please let me know... 

thanks again.

jessie


>Hi Jesse,
>
>Let's keep it on the list, ok?  Someone else may be searching the
>mail archives someday...
>
>I'm not really sure about what happens these days on the Install CD;
>Hopefully, the behavior is the same as I remember it.

>When you start up there should be a brief pause and you should see
>a 'spinning baton' prompt.  Hit any key before this finishes.

>If this works you should see something like:

 >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
>Default: X:YY(0,a)/ZZZZZZZZZ
>boot: _

>At the 'boot:' prompt enter
>boot: 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader

>Hope it works or at least gives up some useful information.

>W Gerald Hicks
>gehicks@p...

>On Monday, July 2, 2001, at 09:18 PM, power jessie wrote:

>
> hello there gerald!
>
> thanks for the quick reply.
> can u guide me on this pls.
> what are the specific commands to load the installed kernel
> in the scsi? i booted from a CD.
>
> tia!
> jessie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W Gerald Hicks [mailto:gehicks@p...]
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 6:05 AM
> To: jessie@p...
> Cc: freebsd-questions@f...
> Subject: Re: Help on HP Netserver E 45
>
>
> You booted install from floppy or CD?
>
> Try using that media to load the installed kernel from the SCSI 
disk just
> to see what happens...
>
> On Monday, July 2, 2001, at 05:58 AM, jessie@p... wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello there!
>>
>> Anyone who have success installing FreeBSD
>> on HP Netserver E 45? I'm having a hard time
>> installing one. I have successfully installed
>> fBSD 4.2R but it doesn't boot, the error
>> message is 'Operating System not found' and
>> 'Read Error'? What is wrong? Can someone help me
>> please. Or point me to a site about this.
>>
>> I'm using 20G Seagate Barracuda SCSI harddisk.
>>
>> Need help asap.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> jessie.
>>
>>
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