RE: RAID Cards

2005-06-27 Thread Nethaniel St. Donovan
Option 6 for Freebsd boot up screen is drop to boot commandline. It basically lets you set certain options so the system can load properly. I.E. it's running 100% off the CD at that moment and if you want to turn acpi off prior to boot you can. Fail because whatever Linux I try (I prefer

RE: RAID Cards

2005-06-26 Thread nethaniel
I can say my experience with adaptec 3200s cards has not been the most fruitful. It's been 2 weeks now and I cannot even get my system to load past the initial bootup options screen. Anything but option 6 fails. The sad thing is I have a driver but I need to load some kind of os on the system or I

RE: help with a failed install

2005-06-24 Thread Nethaniel
On 6/23/05, Brian Duke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BTX loader fails right after the initial setup screen. I press any option except install prompt and it fails. the first thing i would do is try different installation media. disabling acpi might help. it's certainly worth a try(those

BTX loader fails on Gateway ALR 9200

2005-06-22 Thread Nethaniel
I have an abundance of information all I need to know is what to say that will help. The OS I am loading is currently FreeBSD 5.3 I went to adaptec and found some information about FreeBSD 4.11. I tried that version as well. I can get Solaris 10 to load but it fails to find the raid as a valid

RE: BTX loader fails on Gateway ALR 9200

2005-06-21 Thread Nethaniel St. Donovan
Please give freebsd version. Also, what other operating systems have failed to load for you? How exactly does the boot fail? Any error messages? Describe in detail. I have an abundance of information all I need to know is what to say that will help. The OS I am loading is currently