From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 18 22:02:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA01202 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01193 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:01:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id GAA02468 ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 06:01:31 +0100 (BST) To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: clean install won't boot from hard drive... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Apr 1996 16:36:45 EDT." Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 06:01:31 +0100 Message-ID: <2465.829890091@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Marc G. Fournier" wrote in message ID : > On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Nope, doesn't even reach the boot prompt, which is why I > think I might have screwed up the Boot Mgr somehow :( > > Root is 30meg, like the rest of my machines. > > Don't sure if it makes any difference, but its a 1522 controller > that I'm using... >From the handbook: o Adaptec AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no on-board BIOS, which is necessary for mapping the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors. They are perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up or reset. Check your system/board documentation for more details. Does it have a boot ROM? Gary