Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:37:22 +0200 From: "Michael Ross" <michael.ross@gmx.net> To: "freebsd general questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Doug Hardie" <bc979@lafn.org> Subject: Re: Help with Booting Message-ID: <op.vuc48k00halquq@michael-think> In-Reply-To: <C249647E-1186-4AC2-8028-2C09326F77F0@lafn.org> References: <C249647E-1186-4AC2-8028-2C09326F77F0@lafn.org>
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Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>: > I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to > install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up > and running on it before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install > on another computer. That worked, but now I need to use the built in > RAID hardware. As best as I can tell I am going to have to install on > the the actual hardware. Motherboard is an Arima NM46X. The machine > appears to be about 6 years old. > > I have tried to boot the install disk, the live filesystem disk, and the > memstick image for FreeBSD 7.0 through 8.2. All of them do exactly the > same thing: > > Bootstart starts. > > BTX loader lists the drives and memory > > FreeBSD bootstrap loader version 1.1 starts. I get the build date and > then a new line with just a '/' on it. It never begins to spin. No > additional I/O occurs with the boot device. > > The memstick and CDs are good. They boot just fine on another computer, > just not this one. I have had to work around CD issues in the past, but > I thought the memstick would work if the BIOS would recognize it and > boot from it. It recognizes it and tries to boot. I need some ideas > here as the RAID is essential for this application. Thanks, > Architecture mismatch, trying to boot a amd64 on an i386 machine? Michael
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