Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:28:20 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: amb@j51.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: STILL can't boot! Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951211232426.450A-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199512121334.NAA20461@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Michael Smith wrote:
> amb@j51.com stands accused of saying:
> >
> > I STILL can't boot my system. I've created the boot.flp for 2.1 AND 2.0.5
> > and neither will boot.. my system will just hangs with NO output whatsoever.
> > Even the three-finger salut doesnt work.
> >
> > I can boot DOS on the floppy drive
> > so the floppy drive isnt the problem.
> >
> > Both the 2.1 and 2.0.5 boot disks I made boot another computer I tried them
> > on so the boot disks arent the problem.
> >
> > After that I pulled ALL nonessential cards from my system right down to the
> > serial port card, with NO change. the system still hangs with NO output.
>
> I'd give up on this machine; there is obviously something _fundamentally_
> broken with it, if the boot code can't even get to the point where it
> outputs the banner.
>
> > My system consists of:
>
> Which chipset? You may want to try pulling the DTC SCSI controller - it's
> not supported anyway, so unless you have an IDE controller, it's time to
> start looking at a new machine. (I don't know whether it counted as
> "essential" above)
>
> > SCSI host adapter: DTC 3270VL
>
> That's a really unfortunate model number 8)
>
> > AMB
>
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Here's an idea... I had a similar problem with a DTC 2278EB....
I'm not sure if this fix will work for you, but it did for my EIDE
controller card.
Go into the CMOS if you haven't already and set all the hard drives to not
installed. Try booting up FreeBSD now.... If it comes up, then it's the
controller. If so, you will probably be able to boot up freebsd and
install, but not boot up with the regular booteasy type loader.... You'll
probably need the fbsdboot.exe program.
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