Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:11:39 -0600 From: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> To: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: repost of boot issue on 5.3 Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20050205180929.00c756a8@cheyenne.wixb.com> In-Reply-To: <42055475.5020807@cis.strath.ac.uk> References: <6.2.1.2.2.20050205170724.00c56c78@cheyenne.wixb.com> <42055475.5020807@cis.strath.ac.uk>
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At 05:19 PM 2/5/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: >J.D. Bronson wrote: >>No one responded - I am sure someone out there knows what the deal is here... >>I did a full install from CDROM on a fresh new clean drive. >>Freebsd is the ONLY OS on the drive. And i used the entire drive. >>I selected the standard boot manager (not the freebsd one)... >>and all the install went fine. This is what I see when I reboot after >>install: >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT >>Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader >>boot: >> >>..and it JUST SITS there. If I hit the return key, it will boot up into >>the beastie menu and boot fine. How can I get this machine to boot up on >>its OWN? >>The boot startup sequence on the machine is HARD DRIVE THEN CDROM. >>This is the only hard drive in the system. >>Please if anyone knows how to fix this?? - A fresh install with a fresh >>drive....and still no luck. I did just discover this and wonder if I should create a PR for it. If both IDE channels are enabled and they are all set to AUTO/AUTO for master/slave and there is no drive (yet) installed to IDE channel2, the machine hangs. If I install a drive to IDE channel2, the machine boots. Also, if I disable IDE channel2 and just leave channel1 functional, the machine also boots. So what the heck is channel 2 so important for booting a drive on channel1 ? -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Email: jd@aurora.org // Pager: 414.314.8282 Reach me at AIM:lonebanditusa //
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