From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 02:34:53 2004 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 28A6A16A4CF for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:34:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.heronetwork.com (mail.heronetwork.com [216.254.62.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F086B43D3F for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sandshrimp@comcast.net) Received: by mx1.heronetwork.com (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 638B7A4FC6; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:34:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from comcast.net (12-228-104-137.client.attbi.com [12.228.104.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.heronetwork.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1CC1A4F3C; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:34:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4003C9D9.6080803@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:35:05 -0800 From: "W. Ryan Merrick" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031218 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mcabanatuan@wi.rr.com References: <21243121427e.21427e212431@rdc-kc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <21243121427e.21427e212431@rdc-kc.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on nott.heronetwork.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD hangs on boot 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: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:34:53 -0000 mcabanatuan@wi.rr.com wrote: > I just recently got an old HP NetServer LH Plus > (specs): > Pentium 166MHz (dual processor board with single cpu) > 128MB of RAM (DIMM's) > Mylex DAC960 RAID controller > 5x 4.2GB SCSI RAID5 array. > -- > > At any rate, I've tried using my 4.3-RELEASE, 5.1-RELEASE cd's but those fail to even load due to a fault in the loader. I managed to find my 5.0-DP1 CD and gave that a shot, and low and behold the boot loader worked, it managed to find a driver for the SCSI drives (including the cdrom), and to my surprise the RAID controller as well. > > To give you a little background, basically any *nix based OS I have tried fails to install due to not having a driver or a working driver for the RAID controller, so no block device shows up as being able to installed on to. 5.0-DP1 was the first thing that worked. Even NetBSD with their claim of being able to run on anything fails to install. > > Ok so now the problem, pardon the winded explanation. I successfully created paritions and mount points and installed a system to them. Finished install, removed the CD, rebooted, and that ended that pretty much. Aftter it get's past loading up the BIOS and initializing the system, the loader comes up for me to push 'F1' to load FreeBSD. I do that and all I get is a system beep. Nothing loads, nothing happens, and I am able to keep pushing F1 with more beeps. No errors, no loading of anything, no nothin. > > Is there a way I can force error messages to see what the problem is, or to get the machine to boot? Questions? Comments? Suggestions? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hello, The partition size in the RAID BIOS should be set to 2GB for use with freebsd. Also look for BIOS and Firmware upgrades from mylex to improve performance and reliability. -- -Ryan Merrick sandshrimp@comcast.net