From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 27 14:51:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0280237B401 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g5RLpGQ60514; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:51:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Mike Durian Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BTX halted boot failure during 4.6 install In-Reply-To: <200206262244.g5QMie47017096@man.boogie.com> Message-ID: <20020627144938.L58384-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Mike Durian wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:18:59 PDT, Doug White wrote: > > > >too bad, we have a LC2000r around here, just that its in use :( > > > >I've not had problems booting the FreeBSD CDs on other HP Netservers. > >Have you rev'd the BIOS recently? > > I tried to rev the BIOS, but didn't have any luck. The BIOS updates > I downloaded didn't take - apparently they didn't match the hardware, > so I must not have been in the right place. If you have a link to > the latest updates, I'd appreciate it. See if you can track down a HP Navigator CD -- that usually has all the updates you need on it. It should update all the hardware in the system that it knows about, including the management controller and the RAID controllers if they're the rebadged HP NetRAIDs. > The boot screens show I'm running: > Management Controller Firmware: F.10.38 > Symbios: PCI-4.14.04 > v001.35 adaptec hm.... adaptecs do have problems with disks that don't have DOS partition tables on them. Are your disks dangerously dedicated? > >From the adaptec menu: > Model: 2100S Rev 3204 (or possibly 320H - my scratches are a bit messy) > NVRAM Ver: DPT V1.0 For various reasons, these controllers are not recommended for use in production environments. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message