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, >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> [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]"
