From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 7:23:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from droid.nosc.mil (droid.nosc.mil [198.253.206.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BA037B423 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slartibartfast.nosc.mil (slartibartfast.nosc.mil [198.253.21.36]) by droid.nosc.mil (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7IELX901562 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:21:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000818102107.00ac96d0@localhost> X-Sender: huck@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:23:12 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Craig Huckabee Subject: Dell PowerEdge 2300 - more information Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been allocating the disk as dangerously dedicated - I'm trying a different setup now. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Craig >Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:16:02 -0400 >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >From: Craig Huckabee >Subject: Dell PowerEdge 2300 - install help needed > > >Anybody done an install on a Dell Poweredge 2300 recently that can help me ? > >The 4.1 install seems to run OK, it sees the hard drive I have connected >to the internal Adaptec 7860 (a 2GB Seagate), and it sees the RAID >controller. The first time I tried the install, I had geometry problems, >so I turned off the geometry translation on the Adaptec controller. The >next time I tried installing, the boot failed - I get a message from the >BIOS that prompts me to hit F1 to retry the reboot or F2 to enter setup. > >Any ideas ? What's the deep magic needed here ? > >Thanks, >Craig Craig Huckabee huck@spawar.navy.mil Systems Engineer, Compliance Corporation (843) 218 6459 SPAWAR Systems Center - Charleston, Charleston, SC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message