From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 27 21:37:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3EF716A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:37:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (mxfep01.bredband.com [195.54.107.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C6743D2F for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:37:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars.tunkrans@bredband.net) Received: from [192.168.245.231] ([213.112.167.208] [213.112.167.208]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20041127213734.LEDC5665.mxfep01.bredband.com@[192.168.245.231]>; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:37:34 +0100 Message-ID: <41A8F374.70806@bredband.net> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:36:52 +0100 From: Lars Tunkrans Organization: None User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041024 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marta Resende References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error message: "NOTE: BIOS IS NOT INSTALLED" X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:37:37 -0000 Marta Resende wrote: > hello, i had freebsd working in my machine(amd athlon xp and asus mobo), > and today, i change the motherboard and cpu, and when i turn on the > computer, it says: [NOTE]: THE BIOS IS NOT INSTALLED. > > and i reboot and press delete in the boot, to configure the bios, and i > save&exit, and the same message appears. > > So... i did nothing after hardware installation of the mobo and cpu, > should i have done something to proceed with bios installation?? > > i post in these forum cause this error was with a MSI k8t board and > athlon 64. > > thank you! Hello, New Boards have several ATA, SATA and RAID disc-controllers, If any of them are enabled without having any discs attached, the controller complains and says that it did not activate its part of the BIOS. On my MSI K8T Neo2 FIR , this exact same message appears if I enable the Promise 20579 Raid controller to which there are no discs attached. Does FreeBSD start at all on your system after the Motherboard swap ? If you are running the Generic Kernel I guess it should, but if the kernel was heavily customised toward the previous MOBO, maybe you need to manually start the Generic kernel from the bootstrap..... //Lars