Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:13:53 -0700 From: "Samuel Clements" <sclements@linkline.com> To: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: 5.2.1-RELEASE hangs at F1 prompt Message-ID: <20040416001351.087599CD75@smtp1.linkline.com>
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Greetings! I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE on an Intel ISP2150G. This is an L440GX+ motherboard in an Intel chassis with a SCSI backplane. I made a bootable CD and the install seems to go fine. Upon reboot, I get the: FreeBSD: F1 Prompt and when I press enter, I just get a beep. Looking over the lists, I gleaned that I needed to double check that my partition was set bootable, and it is. The odd thing is that when I detach the SCSI backplane and hook a 68pin SCSI drive directly to the onboard SCSI controller, it installs and boots fine. I get the same results with IDE disks. This would mean that the backplane is suspect bad or incompatible, but I know that it works okay with Windows 2000. To further complicate things, when I remove a drive from the SCSI backplane and use an external 80 to 68 pin adapter (bypassing the backplane), I get the same install okay, but no boot. I have updated this system to the latest BIOS, BMC, FRUSDR, and HSC for the chassis and backplane as well as gotten current firmwares for the various Hard Drives I've tried. They are as follows: Seagate ST39236LC 9G 80pin Seagate ST336607LC 36G 80pin Fujitsu MAN3367MC 36G 80pin IBM DDYS-T18350 18G 80pin IBM IC35L018WD210 18G 68pin All but the last drive don't work in the SCSI backplane or in an 80 to 68 pin adapter. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. -Sam Clements
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