From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 22:41:20 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 D815537B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:41:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410C343FCB for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:41:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18nCIZ-000969-00; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:41:11 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18nCIE-00095m-00; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:40:52 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18nCIA-000M0L-00; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:40:46 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18nCI9-000CFG-00; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:40:45 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: Len Conrad , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from Promise tx2000 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:40:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030223184703.03e52cc0@mail.go2france.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030223184703.03e52cc0@mail.go2france.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302240840.44934.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18nCIE-00095m-00*Eu7z3AZPmio* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 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 On Monday 24 February 2003 2:52, someone, possibly Len Conrad, typed: > fbsd 4.7 release > > no drives on motherboard ata channels > > one ATA Master drive on each TX2000 IDE channel (no Array is defined, we > 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 > without boot manager (fbsd 3 and 4 has has this pb) so we always install > 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 conflicts. > > any ideas? If your BIOS supports this, try setting the boot device in CMOS=20 configuration to SCSI Boot Device. The problem is that the offboard ATA=20 controller you are using has its own BIOS, thus the system BIOS will not=20 boot a disk attatched to it. Setting SCSI boot device will mostly make your= =20 BIOS offer to hand booting over to what ever device offers to take it. Most= =20 (modern) ATA controllers respond to the call for a "SCSI boot device" and=20 take controle, then booting the system from the hard drives they own. Will =2D-=20 Willie Viljoen =46reelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message