From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 04:28:16 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 E08A1106564A for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:28:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1B68FC15 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amd620.ovitrap.com ([49.128.188.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p3N4SAQO024038; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:28:13 -0600 From: Erich Dollansky To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:28:09 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.5.4; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104231128.09953.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Cc: 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 04:28:17 -0000 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" > >