From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 14:36: 7 2002 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 79A7437B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.185.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1DC43E4A for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from penguin.inter-sonic.com (penguin.inter-sonic.com [172.16.1.3]) by neonpark.inter-sonic.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g78LZt224354 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:35:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from intersonic.se ([217.215.7.177]) by penguin.inter-sonic.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H0JNZV00.70V; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:35:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3D52E43A.9020100@intersonic.se> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 23:35:54 +0200 From: "Per olof Ljungmark" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020801 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Holger Hoffmann Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq ProLiant 800 References: <000001c23f0c$9acf0090$0c00a8c0@tower> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Holger Hoffmann wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm fairly new to FreeBSD, so I'm kind of lost at the moment. > I just bought a used Compaq ProLiant Server, dual Pentium Pro 200MHz > 256k, two ~4GB SCSI HDDs. The first thing I did was making the two > standard boot-floppies. The installation then was pretty much like the > one I remember from installing FreeBSD on an IBM. Post install > configuration also appeared to work properly. After rebooting the > following happened: > 1st try: with standard BootManager: I couldn't select FreeBSD or hit > enter, the puter just beeped > 2nd try: without extra bootmanager: I got the one-liner that no > operating system is installed > > Anybody any idea what happened? Any tips how to get it working? > > The second problem: I would like to use the two disks in a Level 0 > Software-RAID. Is it possible to configure Vinum during System > installation? I just did what you are trying to do with a PL800: Upgrade the BIOS (download from compaq.com). Then you need to access the Compaq setup (F10 during boot) program and if it is not on the HD you also need the setup floppies. In the setup, select "Unix" or "Linux" as your operating system. This will prevent the BIOS to some translation acts with the drives. For Vinum, you need to read the documentation carefully before trying. HTH, /per olof To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message