On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Pete French wrote:
There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try.
Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to
work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and
the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the "F1 prompt" boot stage
behaves like this:
[snip]
This sounds similar to a Compaq machine I used to have with a SMART RAID
in it. I had 3 drives - a SCSI, and two on the RAID. It would beep
at F1 as well. I had to press F5 3 times to cycle through all the drives,
but then when I got back to the original I could press F1 and it would now
boot fine.
I never solved it, aand eventually changed machine (though not the
hardware). At the time it did not matter so much as the machine was
a server so when booted would just run until it manually needed to be
restarted.
Hmm, it looks like it's a bug in boot0. I've
replaced it with ports/sysutils/extipl and the machine boots fine now.
Btw. I can confirm extipl works on amd64, so ONLY_FOR_ARCHS line can be
updated now. Grub still doesn't.
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