From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 09:20:26 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 872291065673 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:20:26 +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 549A48FC14 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:20:26 +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 p3N9KHBJ013545; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:20:20 -0600 From: Erich Dollansky To: Doug Hardie Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:20:16 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-STABLE; KDE/4.5.4; amd64; ; ) References: <201104231346.25403.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104231620.16475.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> 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 09:20:26 -0000 Hi, I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the installation media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the generic kernel, edit /etc and put it back. If this does not work, it will be hard. Erich On Saturday 23 April 2011 14:25:13 Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 22 April 2011, at 23:46, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote: > >> > >> On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> > >>> It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? > >>> > >> 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. > >> > >> 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: > >> > > this is all to weird for me. Could you install a disk not using the raid hardware? > > > > It would then exclude the motherboard as the cause. > > > > Erich > > No. That didn't work either. I had been using the machine on amd64 but I had to install with the drive on another system. I couldn't get it to boot of CD or memstick. However, the memstick I used then was dead today so I bought a new one hoping that was the problem. Unfortunately this stick is good, but it still won't boot off it. > > > > > > > >> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > >> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8ffac1 | > >> > >> The '|' normally spins a couple of times and moves on to the next section. However, its hung there now. > >> > >> > >>> > >>> 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" > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > >