Problem booting FBSD 5.4-stable..

[Sebastian Holmqvist]

On 1 Oct 2005, at 14:29, Subhro wrote:

> Sebastian Holmqvist sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/1/2005 17:45:
>
>>
>> On 1 Oct 2005, at 14:01, Subhro wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Sebastian Holmqvist sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/1/2005 17:04:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Specs:
>>>> Amd Thunderbird 800
>>>> Abit KT7-raid (VIA KT133)
>>>>
>>>> 256 MB
>>>> 30 GB IDE
>>>> Cdrom
>>>> Floppy
>>>>
>>>> Problem: The computer just prints three rows...
>>>>
>>>> 'Building the boot loader arguments
>>>> Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
>>>> Relocating the loader and the BTX'
>>>>
>>>> ...and then reboots.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Did you try disabling fancy options like BIOS Shadowing, Power  
>>> Options, etc? Are you running the latest release of BIOS from  
>>> your mo'bo' manufacturer? Is the HDD and the CDROM on the same  
>>> cable? If yes, then what is the way they are attached?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Running the latest BIOS version yes. Also running Fail safe  
>> options with the exception on that I've but the cdrom on first  
>> boot device.
>> The cable setup is IDE1 <- HD0 (M) <- Cdrom (S). So yes, they're  
>> on the same cable with manual M/S-setup.
>>
>> // Sebastian Holmqvist
>>
>>
> Great. FreeBSD, unlike Linux and Windowz is very very fusy about  
> hardware. As per the IDE specs, the master drive should always be  
> at the end of the cable. The middle is occupied by the slave drive,  
> which is not your case. For a start, I would try fixing that. Also  
> it is recommended not to mix drive types on a single bus. Therefore  
> it would be highly recommended to move the optical drive to the  
> secondary bus. Also do not rely on CS. Ecplicitly jumper them as  
> master and slave.
>
> Thanks
> S.
>
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Alright. I've tried putting IDE <- CDrom (S) <- HD0 (M) and it didn't  
work.
Then I tried IDE1 <- HD0 (M) and IDE2 <- CDrom (M) and that didn't  
work EITHER.

This is feeling ridiculous. I'm trying the boot diskettes to test my  
luck.

// Sebastian Holmqvist