From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 19:00:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E9F16A428 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:00:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cjgu@kth.se) Received: from mx2.kth.se (mx2.kth.se [130.237.48.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8CE43D49 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:00:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cjgu@kth.se) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mx2.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0B314132F for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:00:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx2.kth.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx2.kth.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15524-05-17 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:00:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (c213-100-49-147.swipnet.se [213.100.49.147]) by mx2.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A347B141300 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:00:03 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <435151B6.5010805@kth.se> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:00:06 +0200 From: Carl Gustavsson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051001) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <43512F32.9050309@telia.com> <43514A9F.7000006@stud.ntnu.no> In-Reply-To: <43514A9F.7000006@stud.ntnu.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kth.se Subject: Re: Boot manager problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:00:28 -0000 Owe Jørgensen wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD on a Compaq ProLiant 350 and I > experienced similar problems. > > I urge you to take a look into the BIOS/Firmware on the Motherboard. > There you will have an option called Boot Device Order. > Make sure that the SCSI controller channel with that system disk is > set as the first boot device. Then you set up your OS to be of type > Other (in BIOS). Save and exit the BIOS. From now on, you stay away > from the BIOS. > > NOTE: You might want to disconnect ALL ide-disks (and CDROMs if you > have a SCSI cdrom) if you are reinstalling. > > Finish the installation, and power down. Reconnect all IDE-devices, > and boot up again. Continue to format and arrange the ide-drives as > desired. Then install src distribution, recompile kernel and reboot. > > Good luck, and remember to drink a lot of coffee. ;-) > > Owe Jørgensen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, The problem is that there's not an option to select the scsi-controller as first boot device. I can boot on the scsi-disc but only if i don't have any IDE-discs in it. If I put in IDE-discs it tries to boot to the first IDE-disc. The BIOS is very limited in the ProLiant 400. FreeBSD is already installed on the machine and I don't need to reinstall it. The problem is only that it won't boot to the scsi disc if I dont write "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" at the boot prompt every time i want to boot it. So I want the boot manager to boot to "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" as default. / Carl Gustavsson