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, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>>>> "[email protected]" >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
