Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 07:50:48 -0600 (CST) From: "Ryan T. Dean" <rtdean@cytherianage.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD install and IBM PC Server 325 Message-ID: <20030304073747.U49392@lumina.cytherianage.net>
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Howdy- I've got an old IBM PC Server 325 sitting over here that I'd love to be able to get FreeBSD installed on. I've tried on and off for a few months now, and am tired of bashing my head against the wall. (for the record, I do have FBSD installs on 6 other machines that I use on a daily basis - this IBM server is driving me crazy). The machine will boot from the CD, prompt for kernel configuration, but I hang for (or immediately after?) the following message: Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle I've double and triple checked all the cabling and the device termination - everything appears to be good. I can, in the SCSI bios, low level format all of the disks. When I got the machine, it had a working NT4 install on it - and for shits and giggles, I've since been able to load Windows 2000 onto it. A little more information about the machine: its a dual pent pro machine, only has one CPU in it currently the onboard SCSI controller (no IDE controller) is an AIC7880 I've tried installing with all of the drives, each drive individually, and with all the drives in every possible configuration - nothing. I've also renumbered each of the drives and repeated the above attempts - still nothing. I'm stumped - I've got no idea what it doesn't like. Attempts at searching the -questions and -scsi archives have met with failure. I don't know what to say. If anyone has any ideas, I'm more than willing to listen. I do ask to be cc:'d on any response, as I'm not currently tracking -questions. Many thanks. -Ryan T. Dean rtdean@cytherianage.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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