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Date:      Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:10:37 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Reverend K Kanno <presence@churchofinformationwarfare.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot spinner 
Message-ID:  <200104202110.f3KLAdf02644@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:40:17 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104201236210.93761-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> 

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> I've got a 4.3-RC box that rebooted for some unknown reason. At this point it
> will boot only as far as the third bar in the boot spinner:
> 
> - \ | (hangs here)
> 
> Is there a meaning behind each position as in each letter of LILO displayed
> in lilo?

No, there isn't a special meaning.  It sounds like your disk BIOS is 
really upset about something.

> Hardware is a dell 2450 with an Adaptec 2100s RAID card.

What does the Adaptec RAID BIOS think about the current state of the 
array?

-- 
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
           V I C T O R Y   N O T   V E N G E A N C E



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