On Monday 24 February 2003 2:52, someone, possibly Len Conrad, typed: > fbsd 4.7 release > > no drives on motherboard ata channels > > one ATA Master drive on each TX2000 IDE channel (no Array is defined, we > just want two independent disks for now) > > fbsd cdrom boots, finds the disks and installs fbsd. > > we choose boot manager because we typically have our system fail to boot > without boot manager (fbsd 3 and 4 has has this pb) so we always install > boot mgr and live with the additional timeout. > > booting never gets to fbsd boot mgr menu. > > we´ve disabled a bunch mobo i/o devics we don't need and can see no PCI > IRQ conflicts. > > any ideas?
If your BIOS supports this, try setting the boot device in CMOS configuration to SCSI Boot Device. The problem is that the offboard ATA controller you are using has its own BIOS, thus the system BIOS will not boot a disk attatched to it. Setting SCSI boot device will mostly make your BIOS offer to hand booting over to what ever device offers to take it. Most (modern) ATA controllers respond to the call for a "SCSI boot device" and take controle, then booting the system from the hard drives they own. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
