From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 13:13: 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 67D8437B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2DC743E31 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Received: from getafix.perimeter.co.za (ndf-dial-196-30-126-140.mweb.co.za [196.30.126.140]) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g66KChT74725; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:12:44 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Patrick O'Reilly" Reply-To: bsd@perimeter.co.za Organization: Perimeter Networks CC To: Matthew Seaman Subject: Re: Boot Error (after: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:20:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200207060148.31594.bsd@perimeter.co.za> <200207060228.05146.bsd@perimeter.co.za> <20020706141508.GA16394@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020706141508.GA16394@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200207062220.39218.bsd@perimeter.co.za> 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 Matthew, thanks for taking the time to respond. I tried some of your=20 suggestions, and was about to dig out an old Win98 CD to test=20 installing/booting from that when I had one other thought... After much gnashing of teeth and ripping out of hair I got desparate and=20 removed the NIC (SMC 10/100). Voila - she boots! I then re-inserted the NIC into another PCI slot, and voila she boots=20 again! Is it really possible that I have a faulty PCI slot? FYI: I have installed the MoBo in a 2U chasis, so there is a 3-slot PCI=20 riser card installed in PCI slot 1 of the MoBo. It is the middle slot=20 of the three on the riser card which caused the problem. I have tried=20 the NIC in each of the other slots and they both boot just fine. Now I am kicking myself because I did not test re-inserting the NIC into=20 the original problematic slot. Perhaps it simply was not seated,=20 though I habitually squeeze everything together very firmly whenever I=20 assemble systems. Anyway - I'll chalk that one up to experience. Thanks again for your pointers. --=20 Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. Perimeter Networks CC. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message