Hi, does the loader start?
It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? Erich On Saturday 23 April 2011 05:38:41 Doug Hardie wrote: > I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install > 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up and running > on it before, but I had to remove a drive and do the install on another > computer. That worked, but now I need to use the built in RAID hardware. As > best as I can tell I am going to have to install on the the actual hardware. > Motherboard is an Arima NM46X. The machine appears to be about 6 years old. > > I have tried to boot the install disk, the live filesystem disk, and the > memstick image for FreeBSD 7.0 through 8.2. All of them do exactly the same > thing: > > Bootstart starts. > > BTX loader lists the drives and memory > > FreeBSD bootstrap loader version 1.1 starts. I get the build date and then a > new line with just a '/' on it. It never begins to spin. No additional I/O > occurs with the boot device. > > The memstick and CDs are good. They boot just fine on another computer, just > not this one. I have had to work around CD issues in the past, but I thought > the memstick would work if the BIOS would recognize it and boot from it. It > recognizes it and tries to boot. I need some ideas here as the RAID is > essential for this application. Thanks, > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
