From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 9:48:28 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 0D0AC37B423 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:48:25 -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 e7IGkj917811 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000818124716.00acf100@localhost> X-Sender: huck@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:48:23 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Craig Huckabee Subject: Re: 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 Never mind - I got it. Had to set the disk geometry by hand - using a DOS partition w/ translation on didn't work, setting it by hand with translation off does. --Craig >Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:31:11 -0400 >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >From: Craig Huckabee >Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 2300 - more information > > >That didn't work either - got the F1 to retry reboot... message again. > >HELP! > >--Craig > > >At 10:23 AM 8/18/00 -0400, you wrote: > >>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 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