Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:28:09 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with Booting Message-ID: <201104231128.09953.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <C249647E-1186-4AC2-8028-2C09326F77F0@lafn.org> References: <C249647E-1186-4AC2-8028-2C09326F77F0@lafn.org>
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Hi, does the loader start? It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? Erich On Saturday 23 April 2011 05:38:41 Doug Hardie wrote: > 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, > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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