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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:34:24 -0500
From:      "Shawn Barnhart" <swb@grasslake.net>
To:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   HP Kayak XA series vs FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <001f01c02c08$83e5f460$0102a8c0@k6>

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I've been migrating an existing FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE system to an HP Kayak
XA system -- basically moving the hard disks and NICs from one box to
another and I'm now having a devil of a time booting.

When I get the initial boot menu I have a choice of F1 for DOS, F2 for
FreeBSD and F5 for Disk 2.  I cannot choose F2 -- all I get is a beep,
it will not timeout to that choice either.  F1 works, F5 brings me to
the second disk which has a non-booting FreeBSD filesystem on it.  I can
only boot the system by choosing the non-booting filesystem on disk2,
getting an error, and entering:

0:ad(0,a)/kernel at the boot: prompt.  The system will boot normally at
that point.

I've moved these same disks between hardware platforms without a problem
more than once.  If I move the disks back to the original box they boot
just fine.  What am I missing and can anything be done to fix it?






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