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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:50:16 +0100 (CET)
From:      Mads Bondo Dydensborg <madsdyd@challenge.dk>
To:        cullen@helios.dhs.org
Cc:        aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AIC-7870 boot troubles
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101181649280.4324-100000@challenge.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0101170944370.1424-100000@helios.dhs.org>

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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 cullen@helios.dhs.org wrote:

> I have a server case, quad pentium 166 that I just aquired, and I can't
> get it to boot a scsi hard drive.  It has a raid setup, but I am not using
> raid devices, just normal scsi hard drive, a 4.5 gig seagate.  I don't
> know what I have to setup to get it to boot one of the scsi devices, it
> detects them, I can access them under linux, but I just can't get the bios
> to boot them.  Any help would be appreciated!  Thanks.

Without knowing the particular hardware, is there any chance that the raid
controller is configured to drive a raid setup? In that case it may very
well refuse to boot when only a single device is present. 

Mads

-- 
Mads Bondo Dydensborg.                               madsdyd@challenge.dk
Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error
code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and
stout.
                                 - rfc2324. Go look it up... :-)



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