Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:40:44 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from Promise tx2000 Message-ID: <200302240840.44934.will@unfoldings.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030223184703.03e52cc0@mail.go2france.com> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030223184703.03e52cc0@mail.go2france.com>
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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
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