Re: Awkward booting issue

2012-04-02 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Mark wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to get FreeBSD 9 amd64 to boot on my 1U server > but am unsuccesful and am out of ideas. > > I tried to boot the iso from CD-ROM, I tried multiple USB memory > sticks and I even tried to boot from hard discs, I'll explain this > further below. > > Oddly e

Re: Awkward booting issue

2012-03-28 Thread matt
On 03/28/12 06:40, Mark wrote: >> (...snip...) >>> Disable everything you can to reduce the attachable devices and see >>> if it will still boot. This will help identify which device if any >>> is causing the hang >> Yes, I considered this. But even after having disabled everything >> that's possib

Re: Awkward booting issue

2012-03-28 Thread Mark
> (...snip...) > > Disable everything you can to reduce the attachable devices and see > > if it will still boot. This will help identify which device if any > > is causing the hang > > Yes, I considered this. But even after having disabled everything > that's possible in the bios, the boot issue

Re: Awkward booting issue

2012-03-27 Thread Mark
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:30:30 -0700 matt wrote: > On 03/27/12 09:22, Mark wrote: > > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit > > Ethernet Controller 04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: XGI > > Technology Inc. (eXtreme Graphics Innovation) Z7/Z9 (XG20 core) > > 04:03.0 IDE inte

Re: Awkward booting issue

2012-03-27 Thread matt
On 03/27/12 09:22, Mark wrote: > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet > Controller > 04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: XGI Technology Inc. (eXtreme Graphics > Innovation) Z7/Z9 (XG20 core) > 04:03.0 IDE interface: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT8213 IDE

Awkward booting issue

2012-03-27 Thread Mark
Hi, I have been trying to get FreeBSD 9 amd64 to boot on my 1U server but am unsuccesful and am out of ideas. I tried to boot the iso from CD-ROM, I tried multiple USB memory sticks and I even tried to boot from hard discs, I'll explain this further below. Oddly enough every boot attempt fails.