Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:38:41 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Help with Booting Message-ID: <C249647E-1186-4AC2-8028-2C09326F77F0@lafn.org>
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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,
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