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Date:      Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:53:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      jim flournoy <bsdspaceman@yahoo.com>
To:        rlucas@solidcomputing.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I still can't get my net install to work from CDrom
Message-ID:  <20010816195326.12578.qmail@web20207.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010816033059.A14416-100000@mx2.threeh.com>

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--- Richard Lucas <rlucas@solidcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, jim flournoy wrote:
> 
> >
> > > Well, did you try pressing F1? :-) That's
> presumably
> > > where you
> > > installed FreeBSD, and your Drive 1 presumably
> has a
> > > boot record
> > > (which you probably installed) but no bootable
> OS
> > > (which is why it
> > > shows up simply as "Drive 1" and you can't boot
> from
> > > it).
> >
> > :) You better I did.  That old IBM responded with
> a
> > warm beep.  Then I pushed every other function key
> and
> > was rewarded with a symphony of monotonous beeps.
> >
> 
> I'm having the exact same problem with a machine. I
> get a menu that says
> hit F1 for FreeBSD, or F5 for Drive 0. If I hit F1,
> it just beeps at me,
> if I hit F5, it pops up the menu again except this
> time saying Drive 1
> instead of 0. It will go back and forth like that if
> I keep hitting F5,
> but F1 just beeps at me. I was having problems
> installing on it, and tried
> to use Normal for the boot menu, but just got No
> operating system after
> rebooting or Invalid partition.
> 
> The machine is using 2 scsi controllers, 1 is an
> onboard Adaptec and the
> other is a Advansys pci adapter. The drive on the
> pci card has /, swap,
> /tmp, /var, and /usr on it and the drive on the
> onboard is just /home. I
> can install fine if I unhook one of the drives, but
> with both I can't seem
> to get it to work. If you figure it out or have any
> ideas I'd appreciate
> it if you'd let me know.
> 
> 
> -Richard

I haven't found a workaround for this, but I'd been
thinking about setting up a RAID with this system. 
Does anyone think this might lead to a solution. 
Hmm.. I've never set up a RAID...

Jim

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