Help with Booting
Erich Dollansky
erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com
Sat Apr 23 04:28:17 UTC 2011
Hi,
does the loader start?
It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true?
Erich
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.
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> 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:
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> Bootstart starts.
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> BTX loader lists the drives and memory
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> 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.
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> 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,
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