Re: Boot manager problem
Carl Gustavsson wrote: Owe Jørgensen wrote: 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 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Hi, The problem is that there's not an option to select the scsi-controller as first boot device. I can boot on the scsi-disc but only if i don't have any IDE-discs in it. If I put in IDE-discs it tries to boot to the first IDE-disc. The BIOS is very limited in the ProLiant 400. FreeBSD is already installed on the machine and I don't need to reinstall it. The problem is only that it won't boot to the scsi disc if I dont write "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" at the boot prompt every time i want to boot it. So I want the boot manager to boot to "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" as default. / Carl Gustavsson ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Sorry for the late reply, but a cute lady tied me up for some hours ;-) this, if using english as the language in BIOS, should be located under the advanced menu. if not, then you can set the partitions on the IDE disks as not bootable. This can be done through sysinstall(8) and sysinstall's slice editor. When exiting the slice editor, remember to choose NO BOOTLOADER as the bootloader for the IDE disks. Then use the slice editor on the SCSI disk, and quit without doing any modifications to it, other that setting it bootable if nescessary. THEN choose the appropriate bootloader for the SCSI disk (I would choose the middle one (can't remember the name), since it will not prompt for any action during the boot process, which may be a good behaviour if you are having this computer running as some sort of server). Have fun, and don't drink too much coffee now ;-) Owe Jørgensen ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Boot manager problem
Carl Gustavsson wrote: Hi, The problem is that there's not an option to select the scsi-controller as first boot device. I can boot on the scsi-disc but only if i don't have any IDE-discs in it. If I put in IDE-discs it tries to boot to the first IDE-disc. The BIOS is very limited in the ProLiant 400. FreeBSD is already installed on the machine and I don't need to reinstall it. The problem is only that it won't boot to the scsi disc if I dont write "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" at the boot prompt every time i want to boot it. So I want the boot manager to boot to "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" as default. / Carl Gustavsson Have you tried another boot loader like GAG? I found it easy to install and use. I have it installed on a floppy with all my OS's config'd so I can either boot via the floppy or use the floppy to install it on the hard disk without any further configuration. http://gag.sourceforge.net Hope this helps Jayton ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Boot manager problem
Owe Jørgensen wrote: 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 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Hi, The problem is that there's not an option to select the scsi-controller as first boot device. I can boot on the scsi-disc but only if i don't have any IDE-discs in it. If I put in IDE-discs it tries to boot to the first IDE-disc. The BIOS is very limited in the ProLiant 400. FreeBSD is already installed on the machine and I don't need to reinstall it. The problem is only that it won't boot to the scsi disc if I dont write "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" at the boot prompt every time i want to boot it. So I want the boot manager to boot to "1:da(0,a)/boot/loader" as default. / Carl Gustavsson ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Boot manager problem
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 real memory = 402653184 (384 MB) avail memory = 384335872 (366 MB) npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: pcibus 0 on motherboard pir0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0x4400-0x47ff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pcib2: at device 15.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 sym0: <895> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x4010-0x40100fff,0x4030-0x403000ff irq 10 at device 4.0 on pci2 sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, SE, parity checking fxp0: port 0x1c00-0x1c1f mem 0x4000-0x400f,0x4050-0x40500fff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci2 miibus0: on fxp0 inphy0: on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:50:8b:94:ab:35 pci2: at device 6.0 (no driver attached) pci2: at device 7.0 (no driver attached) pci0: at device 16.0 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 20.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: 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: port 0x2040-0x205f irq 10 at device 20.2 on pci0 usb0: 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: at device 20.3 (no driver attached) orm0: at iomem 0xe-0xe7fff,0xc8000-0xcdfff,0xc-0xc7fff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 atkbdc0: at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 ppc0: 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: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 sc0: 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: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) Timecounter "TSC" frequency 497435902 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ad0: 76319MB [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad2: 190782MB [387621/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM 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: 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 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 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 s
