From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 18: 8:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.gti.net (apollo.gti.net [199.171.27.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA32937B43E for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:08:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from y3k@gti.net) Received: from sludge.amc-inc.com (ts5m-pool0-212.gti.net [208.216.126.212]) by apollo.gti.net (mail) with ESMTP id 868C3145A56; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 21:08:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010404112306.021ef440@192.168.100.3> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 20:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: Mark Yeck From: Mark Yeck To: Mark Woodson Subject: RE: Vectra XU 6/xxx Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Apr-01 Mark Woodson wrote: > I'm having a huge problem trying to get FreeBSD installed on this > system. I've tried a number of different installs and they all fail with > the same result (3.4R, 4.1R, 4.2R, from burned ISO, from Walnut Creek CD's, > from FTP w/boot floppies). > > The system is an HP Vectra XU 6 with PPro 200 & 32M, doesn't have the > original NIC (linksys, recognized as dc0) and a USR 33.6 (sio4). > > Thinking originally that it was a problem with the drive, I've tried 4 so > far. The original Seagate 2.5G SCSI, an old Quantum 3G SCSI and a Maxtor > 71670 IDE (with SCSI disabled though the chipset still gets recognized > Adaptec 7880 chipset). > > After the install (which runs flawlessly) in will not boot. I just get a > cursor, no messages are output on the screen. > > I've spent some time digging through the archives at geocrawler and haven't > found anything to help me. While there isn't anything listed on the errata > for 4.2, I did see the boot0 bug listed, and downloaded and applied the > updated boot0 with boot0cfg from the fixit shell. Didn't seem to make any > difference. I've tried creating a small DOS partition (thinking that maybe > there was a drive geometry problem). > > In a fit of despair I tried installing RedHat, that installed fine (the > second time) but panicked on boot because it thought that there was a > second processor (which there isn't, it's a SMP board, but the second > processor remains uninstalled). > > I'd love to be able to get this machine running, but I'm out of ideas. I > know people have gotten FreeBSD running on these machines... I'm just > totally clueless as to how they did it. > > -Mark I used to have a link to an article on dejanews that mentioned boot problems with freebsd and vectra's. unfortunately, that link doesnt work anymore and i dont remember what the fix was. It had something to do with the bios not working with the bootloader. Wish I could help more. I know others have had a similar problem and the answer is out there somewhere. -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message