From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 18 12:12:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from anaconda.acceleratedweb.net (anaconda.acceleratedweb.net [209.51.164.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D2CB37B403 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 42336 invoked by uid 106); 18 Jul 2001 19:14:26 -0000 Received: from 66-65-36-21.nyc.rr.com (HELO sharky) (66.65.36.21) by anaconda.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 18 Jul 2001 19:14:26 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" , "Joerg Traeger" Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:12:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: <01071808440500.00633@server> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: booting with mylex acceleraid 170 Message-Id: <20010718191238.8D2CB37B403@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm not sure then. I'm successfully booting off Mylex AcceleRAID cards using SuperMicro motherboards. One of them is 370DLE and I have "ROM of BU2 DEV01" selected to boot off the Mylex card. That's why I told you to look at the ROM option, perhaps it would let you choose Mylex card. Your best bet now is to find someone who has the same mobo and a RAID/SCSI card or contact Intel for help -- if i'm not mistaken, they make the mobo in your box. -Simon On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:44:05 +0200, Joerg Traeger wrote: >> 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! > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message