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 > 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, > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> [email protected] mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >> "[email protected]" > >> > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
