On 2 Oct 2005, at 13:07, Sebastian Holmqvist wrote:
On 2 Oct 2005, at 05:12, Subhro wrote:
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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The abit raid unit is disabled at the moment.
I've got a Promise SATAII150 TX4 controller card with two
harddrives connected to it currently.
Otherwise, it's standard.
You gave me some ideas now, I'm gonna try without the Promise-card
and if that works, on another PCI-port. Wish me good luck :)
// Sebastian Holmqvist
Ok. The problem was solved by disconnecting the harddrives out of the
controller card. I think it might be that they are FAT32.
Almost everything is installed now. Sweet!
Thanks for all the help!
// Sebastian Holmqvist
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