Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:36:51 -0500 From: Harlan Stenn <harlan@bali.trilogy.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk boot problems with an HP Vectra XU 6/200 Message-ID: <951.968999811@bali.trilogy.com>
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I'm trying to install/run FreeBSD-4.1 on an HP Vectra XU 6/200. The machine has 512M of memory, 4x9G U-SCSI disks, an AIC 7880 SCSI controller, and (as I recall) an xl network card. I have had no trouble installing FreeBSD on this machine a number of times (I've done it using both the NT and OTHER settings for the OS in the bios, and I've tried with bios versions 6.11 and 6.13, the latest). I install over the network to a local NFS copy of FreeBSD, and I use DHCP to get the IP for the box. Works great. The problem seems to be that once FreeBSD has finished installing and I remove the floppy for the reboot, the system reboots and does the BIOS stuff successfully, enables ultra scsi, and then clears the screen as it is (apparently) attempting to locate the boot sector on the disk. It never finds the boot sector and just sits there. This machine was successfully running NT before I installed FreeBSD. I've even reformatted the first disk drive, no luck. The SCSI bios is looking to boot from drive 0, which is where I've installed FreeBSD. Any ideas on what I can do to get FreeBSD running on this box? H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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