Re: Booting a SuperMicro Superserver

2014-08-12 Thread Barney Cordoba
So there is. But I still don't see how this can happen. The default is P0 first and P1 second and it certainly wasn't changed, but it still seems to boot from the second drive when both are present. It's almost like there's some logic that says "drive P1 has the same kernel booted the last time,

Re: Booting a SuperMicro Superserver

2014-08-12 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 02:25:29PM -0400, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2014-08-12 14:09, Barney Cordoba wrote: > > The bios only gives you one choice for "HDD". You can't select one of the 4 > > drives to boot from. You can specify USB or CD or HDD, but Not HDD2 or HDD3. > > > > BC > > > > > > On Tue

Re: Booting a SuperMicro Superserver

2014-08-12 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-08-12 14:09, Barney Cordoba wrote: > The bios only gives you one choice for "HDD". You can't select one of the 4 > drives to boot from. You can specify USB or CD or HDD, but Not HDD2 or HDD3. > > BC > > > On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 1:16 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > > > > On Aug 12, 2

Re: Booting a SuperMicro Superserver

2014-08-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 12, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Barney Cordoba wrote: > On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 1:16 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > >> On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Barney Cordoba >> wrote: >> >>> A continuing issue (with 9.1 previously and now 10) is that FreeBSD >>> occasionally (or always) seems to boot fr

Re: Booting a SuperMicro Superserver

2014-08-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Barney Cordoba wrote: > A continuing issue (with 9.1 previously and now 10) is that FreeBSD > occasionally (or always) seems to boot from the 2nd installed drive > rather than the first. I'd be happy to debug this, but I have no idea if it's > bootcode or a BIOS is

Re: Booting a SuperMicro Superserver

2014-08-12 Thread Barney Cordoba
The bios only gives you one choice for "HDD". You can't select one of the 4 drives to boot from. You can specify USB or CD or HDD, but Not HDD2 or HDD3. BC On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 1:16 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Barney Cordoba wrote: > A continuing issue (

Booting a SuperMicro Superserver

2014-08-12 Thread Barney Cordoba
A continuing issue (with 9.1 previously and now 10) is that FreeBSD occasionally (or always) seems to boot from the 2nd installed drive rather than the first. I'd be happy to debug this, but I have no idea if it's bootcode or a BIOS issue. Supermicro pleads innocent, but their bios guys are hard