From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 05:57:38 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 EB08C106564A for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:57:38 +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 BCC9D8FC1F for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:57:37 +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 p3N5vXNs041298 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:57:34 -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: <201104231128.09953.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:57:32 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <2E3ADE2E-131D-488D-B8E3-2CA199CA9B3D@lafn.org> References: <201104231128.09953.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: Erich Dollansky X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 05:57:39 -0000 On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, >=20 > does the loader start? >=20 > It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? >=20 > Erich I am not sure. The last message is the timestamp from the original = distribution build. Then is a line with just the '/' character that = should spin a bit. It doesn't. =20 By playing around a bit I got it a bit farther. I took one of the raid = disks and mounted it in a different system. I did an install on it but = without changing the label other than to use all the disk. Then I put = it back in the production system and booted. It appears to retain the = RAID characteristics, but all I get is a '-' at the top left of the = screen. I then plugged in the memstick image and booted from that. = Right after the last DOS window I pressed F10 which took me to a FreeBSD = boot line with the default pointing to ad0. I used = 0:ad(4,a)/boot/loader and it went on to the same point as before, but = then a bit farther. I now see: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=3D0x8ffac1 | The '|' normally spins a couple of times and moves on to the next = section. However, its hung there now. >=20 > 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. >>=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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >>=20 >>=20 >=20