From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 16:53: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06AD137B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgw1-out.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472DA43FBF for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:53:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from VirusGate.MEIway.com (virus-gate.meiway.com [212.73.210.91]) by mgw1-out.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 3928EEF6AA; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:41:08 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.meiway.com [127.0.0.1]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 32D9C5D009; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:56:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A305D008; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:56:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from tx0-go2france-c.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A1062120112; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:10:30 +0100 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030223184703.03e52cc0@mail.go2france.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.go2france.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:52:59 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: booting from Promise tx2000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG fbsd 4.7 release no drives on motherboard ata channels one ATA Master drive on each TX2000 IDE channel (no Array is defined, we=20 just want two independent disks for now) fbsd cdrom boots, finds the disks and installs fbsd. we choose boot manager because we typically have our system fail to boot=20 without boot manager (fbsd 3 and 4 has has this pb) so we always install=20 boot mgr and live with the additional timeout. booting never gets to fbsd boot mgr menu. we=B4ve disabled a bunch mobo i/o devics we don't need and can see no PCI= IRQ=20 conflicts. any ideas? Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message