From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 23:37:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F97B106567E for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:37:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.ross@gmx.net) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B81058FC12 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2011 23:37:26 -0000 Received: from dslb-178-003-187-025.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO michael-think) [178.3.187.25] by mail.gmx.net (mp022) with SMTP; 23 Apr 2011 01:37:26 +0200 X-Authenticated: #11429267 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/rrTE9DfvrwTjRBWSKslRxOrS6wNF/JmaGqyvpvm /lOHuI08dgswkw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "freebsd general questions" , "Doug Hardie" References: Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:37:22 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Michael Ross" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.10 (Win32) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: Subject: Re: Help with Booting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:37:28 -0000 Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie : > I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to > install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up > and running on it before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install > on another computer. That worked, but now I need to use the built in > RAID hardware. As best as I can tell I am going to have to install on > the the actual hardware. Motherboard is an Arima NM46X. The machine > appears to be about 6 years old. > > I have tried to boot the install disk, the live filesystem disk, and the > memstick image for FreeBSD 7.0 through 8.2. All of them do exactly the > same thing: > > Bootstart starts. > > BTX loader lists the drives and memory > > FreeBSD bootstrap loader version 1.1 starts. I get the build date and > then a new line with just a '/' on it. It never begins to spin. No > additional I/O occurs with the boot device. > > The memstick and CDs are good. They boot just fine on another computer, > just not this one. I have had to work around CD issues in the past, but > I thought the memstick would work if the BIOS would recognize it and > boot from it. It recognizes it and tries to boot. I need some ideas > here as the RAID is essential for this application. Thanks, > Architecture mismatch, trying to boot a amd64 on an i386 machine? Michael