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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Really? I always thought Master should be first. Yeah, I know about
CS reliability problem.
I'll see if I can reverse them or even better, use separate cables.
// Sebastian Holmqvist
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