Sebastian Holmqvist sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/1/2005 20:09:
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.
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
Sebastian,
Don't worry, the boot diskettes wont work either. The basic problem is
some kind of conflict with some existing hardware in the box. I can see
an ABit RAID inside the box. What is it doing there and what kind of
configuration is it following? Also could you point us to some sites
describing your hardware? Could you please tell us about all the devices
which are present in your system? Include the onboard devices as well.
Thanks
S.
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