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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!europa.clark.net!netnews.com!netaxs.com!socko.cdnow.com!heller From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: HELP: Boot Problems! Date: 14 Jun 1997 21:40:34 GMT Organization: CDnow - The World's Largest Online Music Store http://cdnow.com Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5nv34i$lob@netaxs.com> Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com NNTP-Posting-Host: socko.cdnow.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42963 I have a Micron Millennia P200 with Pheon ix bios. I have an Adaptec 2940AU adapter ( 1997 manufacture ) and a seagate barracuda drive. I've installed Freebsd 2.1.7, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2 on this machine. The installation is fine every time. I just can't boot the darn machine. It will just hang after the drive seek and after it accesses the harddisk if I use the standard boot loader. If I used the booteasy I get the F1 prompt, but whenever I hit it, it just returns me to the same prompt. I'm beginning to wonder if there isn't some strange bug in the bootloader code. ( It works fine with NT and W95, dos ...etc.. they say it is the first drive. ) Perhaps a bug in the 2940AU code... since this card doesn't show up on some versions ( I think 2.1.5 ) even though an old 2940U card does show up. I'm getting rather frustrated at the whole thing. I also recall that the sysinstall program said I had an invalid geometry. ( Which can't be wrong since it IS what the scsi bios says it is ). Any ideas on how to get around this? (I can boot the harddrive if I use the loader off of a floppy.) Karl