Fw: Installing on a IBM PC320 Server (from -newbies)

From: clayton rollins (crollins666_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/29/03

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Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 02:03:16 +0000

    On Wed, 28 May 2003 "David Nicholas" <osuisn01@charter.net> wrote:
    >
    >
    >I have an old IBM PC320 Server with the following hardware (use to have
    >Microsoft SBS 4.5 installed before I tried to install FreeBSD):
    >
    >128MB RAM
    >2 (4.5GB) Quantum Viking WSE SCSI hard drives, one is SCSI ID#0 and the
    >other SCSI ID#1
    >SCSI ID#7 Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI controller
    >SCSI ID#2 HP 35470A Tape Drive
    >SCSI ID#3 IBM CDRM00203 SCSI CD-ROM
    >Trident TGVA (1MB) video card
    >2 (100Mhz) Pentium Processors
    >
    >Installed FreeBSD 4.8 (and also tried FreeBSD 4.2) with no hiccups using
    >the
    >outlined installation in the FreeBSD handbook with no other operating
    >systems. When I go to reboot, the Boot Manager comes up with two options:
    >F1 FreeBSD and F5 Drive 1 (or F5 Drive 0, depending if I select F5).
    >Neither work. It will not boot past this point. What am I doing wrong? I
    >know it probably has something to do with my SCSI ID's but I don't have a
    >clue what arrangement or BIOS settings that need to be adjusted. Has
    >anyone
    >installed on this type of server and if so, what settings are needed on the
    >physical server. Or is there a way to get around it in the installation
    >process. Thanks for all your help! I'd really like to get FreeBSD going
    >on
    >this particular box.
    >
    >David Nicholas
    >osuisn01@charter.net
    >

    Hi David,

    It does sound like your hard drive is misconfigured somehow, but I don't
    know how much the -newbies list can help you. (Hence, I'm forwarding it to
    -questions; please continue that thread...)

    I can only think of a few things that you might try. One, verify that the
    disk geometry is set right during the install. Two, disable LBA and any
    other non-unix friendly settings in the bios. (As I don't know a whole lot
    about SCSI, I can't say much about the latter course of action.)

    Hope you get it worked out,
    Clayton

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