From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 04:11:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876041065673 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:11:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [75.101.116.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6082C8FC13 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (pool-108-23-64-87.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.64.87]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p3N4BNhK038764 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:11:23 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: Michael Ross X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd general questions Subject: Re: Help with Booting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:11:25 -0000 On 22 April 2011, at 16:37, Michael Ross wrote: > Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie : >=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> 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: >>=20 >> Bootstart starts. >>=20 >> BTX loader lists the drives and memory >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> 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, >>=20 >=20 > Architecture mismatch, trying to boot a amd64 on an i386 machine? That machine runs amd64 just fine. I have to build the disk on another = computer. This one will not boot any of the CDs from 6.0 and on. I = have only tried the 8.2 memstick version. All of the CDs and memstick = boot just fine on a different computer. I suspect its something with = the BIOS but no ideas where to even start looking.=