On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:11 AM, James R. Van Artsdalen <soekris-t...@jrv.org> wrote: > Michael Warren wrote: >> The 5501 installs fine, but after the machine reboots after the >> install, it can't successfully load FreeBSD. >> >> Here is what I see: >> >> ----- >> >> 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. >> >> F1 FreeBSD >> >> F6 PXE >> Boot: F1 >> No /boot/loader >> >> FreeBSD/i386 boot >> Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel >> boot: >> No /boot/kernel/kernel > > This might be a disk geometry (CHS) mismatch if FreeBSD's boot1 does not > detect EDD/LBA support in the net5501 BIOS. > > Check the net5501's view of the disk geometry at the BIOS prompt and > make sure it matches the geometry used in sysinstall.
James, I think you may be on to something there... I didn't even realize that the drive geometry as seen by the BIOS was displayed on boot, I guess I missed it. I corrected the geometry in FreeBSD to what the 5501 said and did a reinstall. The system still won't boot after the initial install (it just hangs), but it no longer complains about the boot loader or kernel being missing. Progress... I think? :) Thanks for all the help guys. Not too sure where to go from here but at least it's doing something different now. - Mike _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
