Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:28:18 -0400 From: "Cribbins, Jason" <Jason.Cribbins@qwest.com> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: IDE/SCSI BIOS Issues Message-ID: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E8707F76F06@fdntx001>
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I have a strange problem that I cannot understand. I know this is long winded but I wanted to put in as much detail as I can and to explain all that I have tried . I have been working on this problem for 3 days solid now. BACKGROUND: I have a Compaq P100 I picked up for free and planned to use it as a new BSD server for misc tasks. It didn't take long (about 2 hours after install) and I filled up the 520MB SCSI drive before I could add all the ports I planned on using. It was so full I couldn't even run vi or ee anymore. I then decided to bring over smallest drive I had (20GB) and install it with the SCSI. I felt that since I never really got anything completely installed that I would just reinstall from scratch via the FTP site. There was no IDE devices in the machine before now but I did have a CDROM in at one time for the initial 3.3BSD install about 2 months ago. I installed the HD as Primary and plugged it into the only IDE port on the motherboard. I booted on the boot disks created from the images on the ftp site and it was able to see both the SCSI (da0s1) and IDE (ad0s1) drives. It allowed me to partition and make slices. I used full disks on both drives and used the 20GB IDE drive as / /var /usr/ /swap using default sizes and so on. I mounted the 520MB as /tmp. The install went as one might expect downloading from the ftp and coping to the HD (so I thought) and went to then end where it asked me a few other things like mfs, and root password. It eventually got to the point where it required a reboot but upon reboot the system counted memory and then stated NO OS FOUND. This happened no matter how I set up my slices and no matter how I configured the drives. I tried with IDE only....with IDE and SCSI making SCSI the root /var /usr and so on...with IDE and SCSI both using IDE as root /var /usr and so on. The only configuration seems to be SCSI alone and that is not enough space to do what I need. I attempted to use Win9x boot and use fdisk but and it doesn't see the IDE drive either. QUESTIONS: Now I realize there is no doubt this is a BIOS or HD issue here but how was it that the setup utility was able to see and install to the IDE drive and when the OS tries to load on its own it is no longer able to access it? What is it about the boot disk that makes it see the drive and how do I set the BSD install to make it visible as well? Also can someone tell me how to access bios in a Compaq P100 (unknown model#) I have searched several of the manuals on models that came with P!00 processors and they all state "F10 setup". But I have tried everything to do with F10 and cant get any access to bios settings. There is no bios display as in other computers...no video card display either. Just a 1 line memory count which disappears after a few seconds. I also tried F2, CTRL F2, DEL, ALT-F2, CTRL-S, CTRL-ALT-ESC and many random keys. I cant even get a keyboard error if I hold keys down during the bootup. Although I do get Press F1 to continue if keyboard is disconnect...go figure! Any help is greatly appreciated! THANKS Jason Cribbins reply to all is best since I may miss replies if only sent to the mailing list To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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