On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 3:08:41 am Mark Kane wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've got a Supermicro P8SC8 board with an ICH6R SATA controller and am > trying to install FreeBSD on a RAID1 on this controller. Booting > FreeBSD 9, 8, 7, or 6 i386 disc1 when the controller is in RAID mode > results in a hang at the BTX loader: > > ------------------------------------- > Boot from CD : > CD Loader 1.2 > > Building the boot loader arguments > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.08 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS CD is cd0 > _ (continues to blink indefinitely) > ------------------------------------- > > If the SATA mode is set to IDE instead of RAID in the BIOS, it boots > normally with no problem. I've also tried disabling ACPI as a test but > there was no change. > > Any suggestions on what else to try would be much appreciated. > Unfortunately the box is remote and it takes quite a bit of > time/expense for remote hands to power cycle the machine or swap discs > after each attempt. > > Thanks in advance!
Hmm, these things are generally not very easy to debug, esp. remotely. :( It sounds like your BIOS is doing something unusual and that is why BTX hangs. Are you able to PXE boot this box from another machine to install it? -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
