DL380 stalls at F1/F10 prompt

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 04:59:18PM -0700, Jeffrey Williams wrote:
> I have two DL380's with both with Smart Array controllers, and 3rd party 
> SATA controllers installed.
> 
> Both servers have been setup to use the Smart Array as the first boot 
> device in the system configurations.
> 
> I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 with the root, swap, and var partitions on 
> the Smart Array's logical drive
> 
> But when it boots, it gets the stage where it shows the following prompt:
> 
> Press "F1" key to continue
>       "F10" key for System Partition Utilities

That's *before* the FreeBSD Boot Loader, sin't it?

Did you install the FreeBSD Boot Loader or did you do it without
the boot loader?

This might be of interest for you, but that is part of the boot
loader:
    http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/html/00170.html

Edwin

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