FreebSD 5.4 CD won't boot

ilhbutshm · 09-09-2005, 12:41 PM

When trying to boot FreeBSD from a CD, the bootloader freezes... It gets as far as this:

Code:

Starting the BTX loader

BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS 638kB/2096964kB avaliable memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 8 05:59:07 UTC 2005)

After this everything stops (some underscores (_) are blinking but thats it).

I tried SuSE and Gentoo, they both boot fine.

The configuration is:
AMD 3000+ 939
GigaByte GA-K8NF-9
2x 1GB Corsair DDR 400Mhz
2x 200GB SATA
an old Trident 1MB graphic card

Any ideas? Same happens with FreeBSD mini iso.

mrcheeks · 09-09-2005, 06:42 PM

maybe it is SATA the problem? try setting it to use scsi in the bios.

ilhbutshm · 09-10-2005, 02:43 AM

I couldn't find anything similar in BIOS... Should this option be there?

This is under "Integrated peripherals":

Code:

On-Chip IDE Channel0       Enabled
On-Chip IDE Channel1       Enabled
IDE DMA transfer access    Enabled
On-Chip MAC Lan            Auto
Ob-Chip LAN BOOT ROM       Enabled
IDE/SATA RAID Function     Enabled
IDE Primary Master RAID    Disabled
IDE Primary Slave  RAID    Disabled
IDE Secndry Master RAID    Disabled
IDE Secndry Slave  RAID    Disabled
Serial-ATA 1               Enabled
SATA 1 Primary     RAID    Enabled
SATA 1 Secondary   RAID    Enabled
Serial-ATA 2               Enabled
SATA 2 Primary     RAID    Enabled
SATA 2 Secondary   RAID    Enabled
IDE Prefetch Mode          Enabled
On-Chip USB                V1.1+V2.0
USB Memory Type            Shadow

ilhbutshm · 09-10-2005, 06:36 AM

Managed to boot from the install cd now.

I had to disable the "IDE/SATA RAID Function".

ilhbutshm · 09-10-2005, 07:27 AM

I'm a little puzzled now: I have my hard drives plugges in SATA1 and SATA2 connectors, but the drives I see here are ad4 and ad6. Doesn't ad stand for ata drive and shouldn't I see ad0 and ad1?