From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 15:41:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0994116A4D8 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ballista.haightlife.com (dsl-sj-66-219-82-2.broadviewnet.net [66.219.82.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF794405F for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:40:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists-2003@alderete.com) Received: from [66.219.82.3] (trebuchet.haightlife.com [66.219.82.3]) h8FMdIqx090845 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:39:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists-2003@alderete.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: (Unverified) Message-Id: X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:40:14 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Michael A. Alderete" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Problems booting from FreeBSD install CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:41:50 -0000 I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.8 on a Compaq Proliant 5000R, and I cannot get the machine to boot from the FreeBSD disk 1. The system goes through the POST routine, initializes the Smart-2/P RAID array, and then, when it should start booting from the CD-ROM drive, instead gives me the following message: Non-System disk or disk error replace and strike any key when ready or to boot Quick Diags The Smart-2/P RAID array is hooked up to its own PCI card, and the system is set to boot from that first. There is nothing on the array, yet. The CD-ROM is a 4x SCSI drive attached to the Proliant's internal SCSI interface (not the RAID card). The FreeBSD CD is the 4.8-RELEASE ISO image, downloaded to my system and burned to CD-R using Toast. The CD is capable of being booted from on another PC in the house. I have burned three CDs from the image, to make sure it wasn't a burn error. The Compaq *is* capable of booting from the CD-ROM drive. It has booted from both the Compaq SmartStart CD and a Windows Server 2003 CD. So it doesn't seem to be a boot configuration issue, or a bad CD-ROM drive. The Compaq will not boot from my burned ISO images, nor from a Wind River-published CD of FreeBSD 4.4, nor from my OpenBSD 3.2 CD, also factory-stamped rather than CD-R. So it doesn't seem to be a CD vs. CD-R issue. For a variety of reasons, I haven't been able to create boot floppies. I would prefer to solve the problem without floppies, since I'm not sure I have a working floppy drive in the house! Any ideas? Thanks! Michael -- _____________________________________________________________ Michael A. Alderete