From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 0:50:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from new-smtp2.ihug.com.au (new-smtp2.ihug.com.au [203.109.250.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A865D37B423 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:50:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@jmv.com.au) Received: from [203.173.153.241] (p49-max21.syd.ihug.com.au [203.173.153.241]) by new-smtp2.ihug.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04538 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:50:24 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: new-smtp2.ihug.com.au: Host p49-max21.syd.ihug.com.au [203.173.153.241] claimed to be [203.173.153.241] X-Sender: john/jmv@mail.webtapestry.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:53:33 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: John Vender Subject: Re: box with scsi doesn't boot after install - fixed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG found the cure to my problem, my mistake was choice of boot manager, I had= to select Standard which I hadn't tried before. Cheers...John >I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 (using cd burned with ISO image I= downloaded and install floppies created from that) on a Digital Celebris= XL6180 PPro machine with scsi (specs below) and although I get through the= installation, when attempting to boot from the hard disk it doesn't get= past displaying the bios settings screen. > >The hardware is as follows: > >Digital Celebris XL6180 (PPro 200, 32MB of RAM) >Symbios Logic 8100S PCI SCSI controller >Seagate ST32550N 2 gig SCSI hd >Toshiba XM-5401TA SCSI cd-rom >Matrox Millennium PCI video card >2 SMC Intel 21041-AA based PCI NICs >2 serial ports and one parallel > >I had a look at the hardware compatibility page and as far as I could work= out everything above is supported. I didn't find the Symbios controller as= one of the selections on the hardware configuration screen so I tried a few= settings but didn't get a hard disk boot with anything I tried. I searched= the list archives but unfortunately didn't find anything to help with this. > >The machine was running dual boot win98 and win2k until the attempts to= install FreeBSD. I have FreeBSD the whole hard disk and used the automatic= partition setup. I also tried installing with and without a boot manager. > >I'll be most grateful for any pointers for the settings I need to use and= anything else which may help me find how to get it to boot from the scsi= hard disk. > >Thanks in advance. > >John > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message