Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:30:39 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with Booting Message-ID: <F205AE44-596F-4D85-AB9F-902590465CA3@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <201104231620.16475.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> References: <C249647E-1186-4AC2-8028-2C09326F77F0@lafn.org> <201104231346.25403.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <D77EEA88-C85D-47E8-9684-67C2008209CE@lafn.org> <201104231620.16475.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
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On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the installation media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the generic kernel, edit /etc and put it back. > > If this does not work, it will be hard. That works, but then I end up without having RAID activated. I am trying to get the hardware RAID working. > > Erich > > On Saturday 23 April 2011 14:25:13 Doug Hardie wrote: >> >> On 22 April 2011, at 23:46, Erich Dollansky wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote: >>>> >>>> On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: >>>> >>>>> It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? >>>>> >>>> I am not sure. The last message is the timestamp from the original distribution build. Then is a line with just the '/' character that should spin a bit. It doesn't. >>>> >>>> By playing around a bit I got it a bit farther. I took one of the raid disks and mounted it in a different system. I did an install on it but without changing the label other than to use all the disk. Then I put it back in the production system and booted. It appears to retain the RAID characteristics, but all I get is a '-' at the top left of the screen. I then plugged in the memstick image and booted from that. Right after the last DOS window I pressed F10 which took me to a FreeBSD boot line with the default pointing to ad0. I used 0:ad(4,a)/boot/loader and it went on to the same point as before, but then a bit farther. I now see: >>>> >>> this is all to weird for me. Could you install a disk not using the raid hardware? >>> >>> It would then exclude the motherboard as the cause. >>> >>> Erich >> >> No. That didn't work either. I had been using the machine on amd64 but I had to install with the drive on another system. I couldn't get it to boot of CD or memstick. However, the memstick I used then was dead today so I bought a new one hoping that was the problem. Unfortunately this stick is good, but it still won't boot off it. >> >> >>> >>> >>>> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf >>>> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8ffac1 | >>>> >>>> The '|' normally spins a couple of times and moves on to the next section. However, its hung there now. >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday 23 April 2011 05:38:41 Doug Hardie wrote: >>>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> 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: >>>>>> >>>>>> Bootstart starts. >>>>>> >>>>>> BTX loader lists the drives and memory >>>>>> >>>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> 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, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >
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