Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:36:47 +0700 From: John Indra <john@ypb.or.id> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems installing on Compaq Proliant Message-ID: <20000404233647.A815@ypb.or.id>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello dear FreeBSD users... I downloaded the ISO image for FreeBSD 4.0 last Friday. Burned it to CDs, installed it on my home PC, and definitely love it! Earlier today, I tried to install FreeBSD 4.0 on Compaq Proliant 1600. This baby would be a very important production machine. It has Pentium III 550 MHz, 128 megs of RAM, and a Compaq SmartArray RAID 5 controller. The array controller was configured with Compaq SmartStart CD, which apparently installed an MS-DOS 6.x? on the array with some diagnostics or configuration tools. Just FYI, the array has 3 harddrive (each 9.1 gigs SCSI-2) After configuring the system using Compaq SmartStart, it rebooted, and I inserted FreeBSD 4.0 CD, and it boot from the CD. All installation procedure went fine. FreeBSD can detect the array, and installing just fine, until... it finally printed a message like this, "MAKEDEV returns a non zero status" and it told me that the installation finished with some error. Then, I rebooted the machine, installed again from scratch. This time, the error didn't occur. All went fine till the last step, but, after I rebooted the machine, the FreeBSD bootstrap loader told me that it can't load /kernel Oh my God, I said to myself, what the heck went wrong? Finally I decided to give it another try. I installed it one more time, now erasing the whole array partition, including the previously mentioned Compaq tools partition. I used the whole array, and the installation seemed to go fine. Till I rebooted, and it showed the same error. "Can't load /kernel" Weird... I'm not a FreeBSD novice, but really not that expert too. I have never use RAID 5 before, and I really don't understand the concept. All I now that the SmartArray will take care of everything, and FreeBSD will just see one big drive that it suppose to reside to. To be honest, I have even never touched a Compaq system before. I usually use an ASUS motherboards, and all I have to do to go to the BIOS is press DEL. How can I achieve the same thing on Compaq Proliant system? I know the trouble isn't in my CD. I used the same CD on my home machine without any trouble. The installation steps I performed on the Proliant system is as the same as what I did on my home PC (generic P-200MMX system with 5 gigs of IDE harddisk). And maybe the problem isn't related to misconfiguration of the array controller. But why won't it boot from the array? Please help... Thanks a lot in advance... John Indra -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Be the best! iD8DBQE46hofxcp0HIxafmQRAifnAJsFhjZynkPApreVPoosGMoj5R/GZgCZAS1T vwrc6Rmysb2HGalB/IPJ+7Y= =SKbJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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