Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:04:00 +0100 From: Mike Meredith <hmv@meredithm.fsnet.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting Problems Message-ID: <01052322040009.00297@warlock.hmv.net>
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Hi About a week ago, my very ancient P90-based system (running FreeBSD 4.3RC(something)) blew up with sufficient force to destroy the SCSI controller (an NCR810). I replaced the SCSI controller with an old Adaptec 2940, and tinkered with the BIOS to see if it could boot off the system disk and it just hung at what I think is the boot0 stage. After a bit of fiddling, I managed to get it to boot off a set of floppies. I've re-built the kernel to support the new(!) SCSI controller, and the system is running fine once I've got past the booting stage. Ive tried replacing the boot[012] stages with 'disklabel -B xxx' and 'boot0cfg -B', and there weren't any errors. Has anyone got any ideas which might help ? Particularly the right settings for the Adaptec BIOS and/or necessary commands that I've missed ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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