Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

[youshi10]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:31:05PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

At 01:16 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> At 12:52 PM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Both of those checked OK.  Is it possible I have specified the

C/H/S

>>incorrectly during setup?
>>
>>Thanks,
>
> What is your type and model hard drive?  Did you specify the

geometry

when
> you ran sysinstall?
>
> How did you partition and slice the hard drive?
>
>
>          -Derek
>

>

Derek,

In the server I currently have three 376595-001 drives (146 GB serial
SCSI) and three 432146-001 drives (300 GB serial SCSI).  These drives

are

configured as a single drive in a RAID 5 configuration.

I did not specify any geometry during the installation.

I have the hard drive configured as a single partition with the
appropriate lables (/, /var, /usr, /tmp and a swap area).

Thanks for your help.

Sounds like your system is not booting, but you're not getting any

error

message.  Check the boot order in your BIOS, and turn on diagnostic

boot

messages if they are not turned on.

Does they system boot from a CD ok?

         -Derek

Yes, the system boots from CD just fine.  And, it is able to run newfs
during the install without any problems.

The total size of the drive is 683.5 GB.

The boot order in the BIOS is CD and then E200i controller.

One question you didn't quite answer.   Someone asked 'how did you
partition the device.   I think the intent was to ask what process
did you use - for example sysinstall or manual fdisk/bsdabel/newfs?

Did you first create a single slice on the drive and then divide
that slice in to partitions?

In either case, you must tell either sysinstall or fdisk & bsdlabel
to make the drive and slice bootable, to write either a generic
boot record or the FreeBSD MBR in fdisk or the fdisk portion of
sysinstall and then select make the slice bootable in bsdlabel or
the bsdlabel part of sysinstall.   If you don't, it won't find a
bootable device there.

If you have done those things, then, back to the drawing board.

////jerry

I used sysinstall to partition the device.  And, I selected boot mgr for
the boot manager.  When the system booted, it would boot to the point to
where I had to press F1 to boot FreeBSD.  When F1 was pressed, or the
timeout was waited for, the system would just beep, the drive lights would
flash, and nothing else would happen.

Sorry for the confusion.



Jay

Thanks,


Jay

Jay

>>Jay
>>
>> > At 10:49 AM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >>I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on an HP Proliant G5 server with an
E200i
>> >>Smart Controller installed.  The installation was flawless.
>> >>
>> >>When I reboot the server after the installation, the boot loader
>> screen
>> >> is
>> >>displayed.  I press F1 and the system beeps and comes back to

the

boot
>> >>loader prompt.
>> >>
>> >>What should I be looking at?  I am at a loss since I usually end

up

>> with
>> >>leftover hardware and this time I acutally got to purchase new
>> hardware
>> >>just for this project.
>> >>
>> >>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>> >>
>> >>Thanks for your help.
>> >
>> > Check your BIOS that you are ALLOWING the boot sector to be
written.
>> >
>> > If that is OK, try disabling hyperthreading if that is turned on

in

>> your
>> > BIOS.
>> >
>> >          -Derek

Jay,
     Try another bootloader, such as GAG (http://gag.sf.net) or Grub (this 
requires a BSD slice write capable LiveCD unfortunately to install grub via 
ports). I've come across some cases with some computers where GAG worked where 
Grub and the BSD That isn't a long term solution to your problem, but it's a 
workaround until the actual root cause can be determined.
     HTT shouldn't be the cause, unless the hardware architects that designed 
your PATA EIDE controller did something fubar'ed in the design, I'd think.
     Also, please bottom-post, not top-post on this list.
Thanks!
-Garrett

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