Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:00:06 +0200 From: Carl Gustavsson <cjgu@kth.se> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager problem Message-ID: <435151B6.5010805@kth.se> In-Reply-To: <43514A9F.7000006@stud.ntnu.no> References: <43512F32.9050309@telia.com> <43514A9F.7000006@stud.ntnu.no>
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Owe Jørgensen wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD on a Compaq ProLiant 350 and I > experienced similar problems. > > I urge you to take a look into the BIOS/Firmware on the Motherboard. > There you will have an option called Boot Device Order. > Make sure that the SCSI controller channel with that system disk is > set as the first boot device. Then you set up your OS to be of type > Other (in BIOS). Save and exit the BIOS. From now on, you stay away > from the BIOS. > > NOTE: You might want to disconnect ALL ide-disks (and CDROMs if you > have a SCSI cdrom) if you are reinstalling. > > Finish the installation, and power down. Reconnect all IDE-devices, > and boot up again. Continue to format and arrange the ide-drives as > desired. Then install src distribution, recompile kernel and reboot. > > Good luck, and remember to drink a lot of coffee. ;-) > > Owe Jørgensen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, The problem is that there's not an option to select the scsi-controller as first boot device. I can boot on the scsi-disc but only if i don't have any IDE-discs in it. If I put in IDE-discs it tries to boot to the first IDE-disc. The BIOS is very limited in the ProLiant 400. FreeBSD is already installed on the machine and I don't need to reinstall it. The problem is only that it won't boot to the scsi disc if I dont write "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" at the boot prompt every time i want to boot it. So I want the boot manager to boot to "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" as default. / Carl Gustavsson
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