Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:53:26 -0700 (PDT) From: jim flournoy <bsdspaceman@yahoo.com> To: rlucas@solidcomputing.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I still can't get my net install to work from CDrom Message-ID: <20010816195326.12578.qmail@web20207.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010816033059.A14416-100000@mx2.threeh.com>
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--- Richard Lucas <rlucas@solidcomputing.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, jim flournoy wrote: > > > > > > Well, did you try pressing F1? :-) That's > presumably > > > where you > > > installed FreeBSD, and your Drive 1 presumably > has a > > > boot record > > > (which you probably installed) but no bootable > OS > > > (which is why it > > > shows up simply as "Drive 1" and you can't boot > from > > > it). > > > > :) You better I did. That old IBM responded with > a > > warm beep. Then I pushed every other function key > and > > was rewarded with a symphony of monotonous beeps. > > > > I'm having the exact same problem with a machine. I > get a menu that says > hit F1 for FreeBSD, or F5 for Drive 0. If I hit F1, > it just beeps at me, > if I hit F5, it pops up the menu again except this > time saying Drive 1 > instead of 0. It will go back and forth like that if > I keep hitting F5, > but F1 just beeps at me. I was having problems > installing on it, and tried > to use Normal for the boot menu, but just got No > operating system after > rebooting or Invalid partition. > > The machine is using 2 scsi controllers, 1 is an > onboard Adaptec and the > other is a Advansys pci adapter. The drive on the > pci card has /, swap, > /tmp, /var, and /usr on it and the drive on the > onboard is just /home. I > can install fine if I unhook one of the drives, but > with both I can't seem > to get it to work. If you figure it out or have any > ideas I'd appreciate > it if you'd let me know. > > > -Richard I haven't found a workaround for this, but I'd been thinking about setting up a RAID with this system. Does anyone think this might lead to a solution. Hmm.. I've never set up a RAID... Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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