Carl Johan Gustavsson wrote:
Hello,

I have a Compaq ProLiant 400, that i'm using as a fileserver.
(FreeBSD balder.home.swe 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386)

It has a scsi-disk (da0) and two ide-disks, ad0 (at ata0-master) and ad2 (at ata1-master).
da0 contains the system, ad0 and ad2 is just for storage.

The problem is that the bios doesn't allow me to boot directly to da0. I solve this by having a MBR on ad0, the problem is that it tries to find a loader on the ad0 which is wrong, and i get a error message that says "Invalid partition". Then I get a boot-prompt and if i write "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" it boots correctly.

Upon booting i get:

F1   FreeBSD
F5   Drive 1

Default: F1

Invalid partition

FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot: Invalid partition
No /boot/loader

FreeBSD/i368 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot: 1:da(0,a)/boot/loader    (i write this)

After this it boots correct.

How do i get the bootloader to boot 1:da(0,a)/boot/kernel directly?

With regards Carl Gustavsson

dmesg:

Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
   The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May  8 10:21:06 UTC 2005
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (497.44-MHz 686-class CPU)
 Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory  = 402653184 (384 MB)
avail memory = 384335872 (366 MB)
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
cpu0 on motherboard
pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 6 Entries> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0x44000000-0x47ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pcib2: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 15.0 on pci0
pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
sym0: <895> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x40100000-0x40100fff,0x40300000-0x403000ff irq 10 at device 4.0 on pci2
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, SE, parity checking
fxp0: <Intel 82558 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x1c00-0x1c1f mem 0x40000000-0x400fffff,0x40500000-0x40500fff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:50:8b:94:ab:35
pci2: <display, VGA> at device 6.0 (no driver attached)
pci2: <base peripheral> at device 7.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 16.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 20.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 0x2060-0x206f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 20.1 on pci0
ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x2040-0x205f irq 10 at device 20.2 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <bridge> at device 20.3 (no driver attached)
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xe0000-0xe7fff,0xc8000-0xcdfff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (port)
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 497435902 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 76319MB <ST380011A/3.04> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
ad2: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JB-00GVA0/08.02D08> [387621/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <COMPAQ XM-6402B/1723> at ata1-slave PIO4
Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
(noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS mode change from SE to SE.
da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <COMPAQ BB00921B91 3B05> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 8678MB (17773524 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1106C)
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a



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I recently installed FreeBSD on a Compaq ProLiant 350 and I experienced similar problems.

I urge you to take a look into the BIOS/Firmware on the Motherboard. There you will have an option called Boot Device Order. Make sure that the SCSI controller channel with that system disk is set as the first boot device. Then you set up your OS to be of type Other (in BIOS). Save and exit the BIOS. From now on, you stay away from the BIOS.

NOTE: You might want to disconnect ALL ide-disks (and CDROMs if you have a SCSI cdrom) if you are reinstalling.

Finish the installation, and power down. Reconnect all IDE-devices, and boot up again. Continue to format and arrange the ide-drives as desired. Then install src distribution, recompile kernel and reboot.

Good luck, and remember to drink a lot of coffee. ;-)

Owe Jørgensen
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