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Date:      Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:11:23 -0700
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        Michael Ross <michael.ross@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Help with Booting
Message-ID:  <ED94BCDE-1388-4652-8C8C-C7DC7BEDE7C5@lafn.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.vuc48k00halquq@michael-think>
References:  <C249647E-1186-4AC2-8028-2C09326F77F0@lafn.org> <op.vuc48k00halquq@michael-think>

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On 22 April 2011, at 16:37, Michael Ross wrote:

> Am 23.04.2011, 00:38 Uhr, schrieb Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>:
>=20
>> I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts.  I am trying to =
install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot.  I had a system up =
and running on it before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install =
on another computer.  That worked, but now I need to use the built in =
RAID hardware.  As best as I can tell I am going to have to install on =
the the actual hardware.  Motherboard is an Arima NM46X.  The machine =
appears to be about 6 years old.
>>=20
>> I have tried to boot the install disk, the live filesystem disk, and =
the memstick image for FreeBSD 7.0 through 8.2.  All of them do exactly =
the same thing:
>>=20
>> Bootstart starts.
>>=20
>> BTX loader lists the drives and memory
>>=20
>> FreeBSD bootstrap loader version 1.1 starts.  I get the build date =
and then a new line with just a '/' on it.  It never begins to spin.  No =
additional I/O occurs with the boot device.
>>=20
>> The memstick and CDs are good.  They boot just fine on another =
computer, just not this one.  I have had to work around CD issues in the =
past, but I thought the memstick would work if the BIOS would recognize =
it and boot from it.  It recognizes it and tries to boot.  I need some =
ideas here as the RAID is essential for this application.  Thanks,
>>=20
>=20
> Architecture mismatch, trying to boot a amd64 on an i386 machine?

That machine runs amd64 just fine.  I have to build the disk on another =
computer.  This one will not boot any of the CDs from 6.0 and on.  I =
have only tried the 8.2 memstick version.  All of the CDs and memstick =
boot just fine on a different computer.  I suspect its something with =
the BIOS but no ideas where to even start looking.=



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