Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread jhall
I have been able to make the system boot. I had to change one of the Array options to Max Boot enabled 8gb. I found this in an older post concerning a different controller, but it worked. Specifically, my server is an ML350 with the E200i controller. Thanks to everyone for your help. Jay

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:31:05PM -, [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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread jhall
. 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

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread youshi10
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

Re: acpi: bad read from port 0x71:: FreeBSD 6.1 /boot fault (solution)

2006-09-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:30:05PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Does anybody know what to tweak in /boot/* to stop bad read/write messages from/to the BIOS? [At least so fare as I can tell? I've triied everything suggested on Google; rebooted, no-joy. The BIOS

acpi: bad read from port 0x71:: FreeBSD 6.1 /boot fault

2006-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
Does anybody know what to tweak in /boot/* to stop bad read/write messages from/to the BIOS? [At least so fare as I can tell? I've triied everything suggested on Google; rebooted, no-joy. The BIOS is reset (AFAICT) to their fail-safe defaults, but

FreeBSD 6.1 boot loader missing

2006-06-13 Thread Al Plant
I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on 2 different HD's 3.5 GB. When the reboot is supposed to happen the Boot loader doesnot come up. Is there a way to fix this from a single user prompt or any other way? I have never had this happen to FreeBSD and I have been installing it on many boxes since version

FREEBSD I386 BOOT HANG

2006-06-05 Thread CATHERINE LORENZ
I HAVE A TOSHIBA LAPTOP I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO LOAD THE CD VERSION 5.2.1 FREEBSD ONTO MY LAPTOP WITH NO LUCK. IT FREEZES AFTER THE IT BOOTS, I DID DISABLE THE ACPI BUT IT STILL FROZE. IS THERE A WAY TO FIX THIS PROBLEM? THANKS IOTA

Re: FREEBSD I386 BOOT HANG

2006-06-05 Thread Nick Withers
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 03:45:47 -0700 (PDT) CATHERINE LORENZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I HAVE A TOSHIBA LAPTOP I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO LOAD THE CD VERSION 5.2.1 FREEBSD ONTO MY LAPTOP WITH NO LUCK. IT FREEZES AFTER THE IT BOOTS, I DID DISABLE THE ACPI BUT IT STILL FROZE. IS THERE A WAY TO

Re: FREEBSD I386 BOOT HANG

2006-06-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
CATHERINE LORENZ wrote: I HAVE A TOSHIBA LAPTOP I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO LOAD THE CD VERSION 5.2.1 FREEBSD ONTO MY LAPTOP WITH NO LUCK. IT FREEZES AFTER THE IT BOOTS, I DID DISABLE THE ACPI BUT IT STILL FROZE. IS THERE A WAY TO FIX THIS PROBLEM? 5.2.1 is so old that it is no longer

Re: FreeBSD-multi-boot

2006-05-15 Thread Danny Butroyd
Vlad GURDIGA wrote: Hello all, I have these slices on my HDD: - /dev/ad0s1 - Windows XP - /dev/ad0s2 - FreeBSD/i386 - /dev/ad0s3 - FreeBSD/amd64 and I want them all in my boot.ini. Till now I succeeded with FreeBSD/i386 (first did dd if=/dev/ad0s2 of=boot.bsd bs=512 count=1 from

FreeBSD-multi-boot

2006-05-06 Thread Vlad GURDIGA
Hello all, I have these slices on my HDD: - /dev/ad0s1 - Windows XP - /dev/ad0s2 - FreeBSD/i386 - /dev/ad0s3 - FreeBSD/amd64 and I want them all in my boot.ini. Till now I succeeded with FreeBSD/i386 (first did dd if=/dev/ad0s2 of=boot.bsd bs=512 count=1 from FreeBSD/i386, then copied the

Automating a FreeBSD 6.0 boot menu selection

2006-03-05 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi all, I have a HP DL-140 G2 server, that will only boot when I select FreeBSD Safe mode, option 3 on the boot loader menu. I have read through 'man loader' and 'man loader.conf' I have also had a read through the /boot/defaults/loader.conf file, but don't really see an option for this. Is

FreeBSD Windows Boot?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Maness
If for what ever reason the FreeBSD boot loader does load windows, is there a way to repair the windows boot sector? I remember trying this in the past with ill results. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD Windows Boot?

2006-02-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
If for what ever reason the FreeBSD boot loader does load windows, is there a way to repair the windows boot sector? I remember trying this in the past with ill results. Probably depends on what is wrong. Probably there is some MS utility that can repair it. Someone else will have to talk

Re: FreeBSD Windows Boot?

2006-02-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
Jerry McAllister wrote: If for what ever reason the FreeBSD boot loader does load windows, is there a way to repair the windows boot sector? I remember trying this in the past with ill results. Probably depends on what is wrong. Probably there is some MS utility that can repair

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-22 Thread Vizion
On Saturday 21 May 2005 03:42, the author Thomas Hurst contributed to the dialogue on Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted: * Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat - then intention is to be able to disconnect it from the ships network, lug it to a position in range of a wireless network and do a

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-21 Thread Vizion
On Saturday 21 May 2005 03:42, the author Thomas Hurst contributed to the dialogue on Re: FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted: * Vizion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat

FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues - reposted

2005-05-20 Thread Vizion
I hope noone minds but as I have not had a reply I thought I would repost hoping that someone would pick up the thread. Thanks David Original follows: - Hi Below is the output from dmesg.boot I have some questions: 1. re: 802.11a

FreeBSD 5.3 Boot issues

2005-05-19 Thread Vizion
Hi Below is the output from dmesg.boot I have some questions: 1. re: 802.11a This system has been built in a mini ATX case and has a Proxim Harmony 802.11a Model 8150 PCI card on (I am on a boat - then intention is to be able to disconnect it from the ships network, lug it to a position in

Re: Re: Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-13 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - Brian John wrote: ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying) ...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode. It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged when I switched cases. However, Windows works

Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-13 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Brian John writes: Ok, well I ended up getting this to work. Basically I took the IDE cable that I was using for my CD and DVD drives and swapped that one with the cable that I was using for my hard drives. Now it works totally fine. Really strange, but at least it works. I seem to recall

Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-12 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
El Vie 11 Mar 2005 11:12, Brian John escribió: - Original Message - Brian John wrote: ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying) is your cable a 80-conductor IDE/ATA cable? maps ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-11 Thread Brian John
- Original Message - Brian John wrote: ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying) ...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode. It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged when I switched cases. However, Windows works just fine

changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Brian John
Hello, I just switched my computer to a new case yesterday and now it won't boot. However, Windows boots fine (I dual boot). Here are some of the messages that FreeBSD has while it is starting up: ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name

RE: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Andrew Seguin
-Original Message- ... ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 ... mountroot I'm far from being the expert... But is it possible you have your hard disk plugged in

Re: RE: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Brian John
ICRC error (retrying) ...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode. It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged when I switched cases. However, Windows works just fine. I tried running fsck and I still get the errors. Does anyone have any clue what I can

Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Brian John wrote: ad1: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying) ...and I can't boot into FreeBSD. It just puts me in single user mode. It almost appears as if my hard drives somehow were damaged when I switched cases. However, Windows works just fine. I tried running fsck and I still get

Re: changed cases, now freebsd won't boot!

2005-03-10 Thread Xian
On Thursday 10 March 2005 16:18, Andrew Seguin wrote: -Original Message- ... ad3: WARNING - READDMA UDMA ICRC FAILED Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a set root by name failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 ... mountroot I'm far from being the

Fwd: FreeBSD wont boot after restoring RAID 5

2005-02-22 Thread Alvaro Rosales
-- Forwarded message -- From: Alvaro Rosales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:54:56 -0500 Subject: FreeBSD wont boot after restoring RAID 5 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hello guys, I had a problem with my raid 5 array and I had to replace one of the disks

FreeBSD wont boot after restoring RAID 5

2005-02-21 Thread Alvaro Rosales
Hello guys, I had a problem with my raid 5 array and I had to replace one of the disks, the utility to restore the array worked fine , all the 3 disks are ok, but the system doesn't boot, I have looked at the contents of the disks using the fixit CD and the data seems ok, but I dont know how to

Re: winxp freebsd dual boot with freebsd on second HD

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 05:20:35PM -0700, Abe Olson wrote: The instructions say: Other operating systems, in particular Windows® 95, have been known to overwrite an existing MBR with their own. If this happens to you, or you want to replace your existing MBR with the FreeBSD MBR then use

winxp freebsd dual boot with freebsd on second HD

2004-09-18 Thread Abe Olson
In the handbook it says that, in cases where you have freebsd on the second disk and windows on the first, that you have to install the freebsd boot manager on both disks. I discovered this after I had installed freebsd. I am currently trying to install the freebsd boot manager on my first

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)

2004-06-28 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:57:42 +0300, Dancho Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: For label use /boot/boot file, /boot/boot0 is for mbr. /hd is the temporary directory I created to mount /dev/ad0s2a, so I guess my slice is

Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)

2004-06-26 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Hi, I have a dual boot with Windows 2000 (ad0s1 is windows, ad0s2 is FreeBSD 5.2.1). I trashed a working dual-boot somehow. Now the problem is, I get the boot menu listing both Windows and FreeBSD, but only Windows boots (with F1). Pressing F2 for FreeBSD just gives a beep.I booted from the fixit

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)

2004-06-26 Thread Dancho Penev
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 00:25:24 +1000 From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot) Hi, Hello I have a dual boot with Windows 2000 (ad0s1 is windows, ad0s2

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD (dual-boot)

2004-06-26 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:11:45 +0300, Dancho Penev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:25:24AM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: I have a dual boot with Windows 2000 (ad0s1 is windows, ad0s2 is FreeBSD 5.2.1). I trashed a working dual-boot somehow. Now the problem is, I get the

DOS and FreeBSD 3.51, Boot Loader Configuration

2004-04-02 Thread Dwight Spence
I have just copy my files from a bootable FreeBSD3.5 CD to a dos partition. Which bootloader should I choose to make sure my system boots to FreeBSD? DS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

RE: freebsd not boot

2004-02-23 Thread Pat Saunders
: 20 February 2004 19:00 To: Pat Saunders Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: freebsd not boot On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:21:43 - Pat Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to run freebsd 4.9 on a PC / IDE architecture. I have one IDE drive and two 3COM 3c90 Network Cards and CD

freebsd not boot

2004-02-20 Thread Pat Saunders
Hi, I am trying to run freebsd 4.9 on a PC / IDE architecture. I have one IDE drive and two 3COM 3c90 Network Cards and CD-ROM The PC will be a dedicated FreeBSD box. I have installed freebsd v4.9 , using the whole 4G disk which is bootable and installed 'Standard MBR - no boot manager' and

Re: freebsd not boot

2004-02-20 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:21:43 - Pat Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to run freebsd 4.9 on a PC / IDE architecture. I have one IDE drive and two 3COM 3c90 Network Cards and CD-ROM The PC will be a dedicated FreeBSD box. I have installed freebsd v4.9 , using the whole 4G

Installing FreeBSD 5.1 - Boot manager doesnt install itself

2003-09-15 Thread y . patil
I have two disks on my machine - the first has WinNT while the second had linux. I used Lilo to select which OS I wanted to boot. Replacing linux, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on the second disk. In spite of selecting the Boot manager for installation, it still doesn't seem to install

Re: Installing FreeBSD 5.1 - Boot manager doesnt install itself

2003-09-15 Thread Jud
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:40:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two disks on my machine - the first has WinNT while the second had linux. I used Lilo to select which OS I wanted to boot. Replacing linux, I installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on the second disk. In spite of selecting the Boot

FreeBSD Wont Boot

2002-11-15 Thread Matt
I have a freeBSD machine that wont boot due To the fact that its checking an ethernet port that does not exist. How can i disable it, or get rid of it? __ Looking for safe email solutions for your school or district? http://www.epals.com/schoolmail/

Re: FreeBSD Wont Boot

2002-11-15 Thread Andrew Boothman
Matt wrote: I have a freeBSD machine that wont boot due To the fact that its checking an ethernet port that does not exist. How can i disable it, or get rid of it? Can you be more specific in describing your problem? Do you get an error message? Does the system stop responding during boot?

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