From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 1 17:28:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from accord.grasslake.net (accord.grasslake.net [206.11.249.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4D337B503 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 17:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k6 (k6.grasslake.net [192.168.2.1]) by accord.grasslake.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA00842 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:45:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Message-ID: <001f01c02c08$83e5f460$0102a8c0@k6> From: "Shawn Barnhart" To: Subject: HP Kayak XA series vs FreeBSD Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 19:34:24 -0500 Organization: Grasslake.Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message