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From: Joerg Traeger <jtraeger@rhein-ruhr.de>
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Subject: Re: booting with mylex acceleraid 170
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:44:05 +0200
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> What happens when you select "option rom"?
> does it let you choose from a list of devices?
>
> -Simon
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:56:09 +0200, Joerg Traeger wrote:
> >> What are your options as far as choosing boot device?
> >>
> >> -Simon
> >>
> >> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:06:02 +0200, Joerg Traeger wrote:
> >> >Using an Intel ISP1100 and a mylex acceleraid 170 I installed FreeBSD
> >> > 4.3R. After rebooting there was no chance to boot the OS. The system
> >> > hangs just before coming up / finding its boot device. I tried almost
> >> > any combination of bios setup to boot from but it doesn't allow me to
> >> > choose SCSI.
> >
> >the bios offers:
> >
> >option rom
> >floppy
> >ide-hdd
> >armed-hdd
> >ide-floppy
> >armed-ide-floppy
> >pxe-net#1
> >pxe-net#2

The system hangs with a black screen and a cursor with the selection "option 
rom".  As far as I know this option deals only with isa devices.
I thought it is the best to flash the motherboards bios. Unfortunately the 
flash tool doesn't fit on one floppy and it isn't clever to prepare a dos hdd 
because the bios upgarde consists of several files (each 64k).
Aaarrgh!

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