Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:31:31 -0800 (PST) From: Nick Tonkin <nick@rlnt.net> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Failure to boot after installing 4.2 on HP NetServer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101250730010.4850-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010125114450.C63352@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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The box was running Windoze NT. I am switching it to UNIX to install a custom database application I wrote; I'm not a sysadmin! I've used FreeBSD myself since 2.2, but I can't be bothered with this. I've just tried RedHat Linux 7 an the installation went apparently flawlessly. Oh, well... Thanks, ~~~~~~~~~~~ Nick Tonkin On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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