From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 17 13: 1:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from anaconda.acceleratedweb.net (anaconda.acceleratedweb.net [209.51.164.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA20837B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:01:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 47018 invoked by uid 106); 17 Jul 2001 20:03:25 -0000 Received: from 66-65-36-21.nyc.rr.com (HELO sharky) (66.65.36.21) by anaconda.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 20:03:25 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" , "Joerg Traeger" Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:01:40 -0400 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: <01071721560901.00883@server> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: booting with mylex acceleraid 170 Message-Id: <20010717200136.BA20837B403@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What happens when you select "option rom"? does it let you choose from a list of devices? -Simon On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:56:09 +0200, Joerg Traeger wrote: >> What are your options as far as choosing boot device? >> >> -Simon >> >> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:06:02 +0200, Joerg Traeger wrote: >> >Using an Intel ISP1100 and a mylex acceleraid 170 I installed FreeBSD >> > 4.3R. After rebooting there was no chance to boot the OS. The system >> > hangs just before coming up / finding its boot device. I tried almost any >> > combination of bios setup to boot from but it doesn't allow me to choose >> > SCSI. > >the bios offers: > >option rom >floppy >ide-hdd >armed-hdd >ide-floppy >armed-ide-floppy >pxe-net#1 >pxe-net#2 > >this is from memory, so don't count on its spelling... >FreeBSD-installation was started from floppies. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message