Re: Loader hang

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:45:33 +1030
"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor <at> gsoft.com.au> mentioned:

> Hi *,
> I recently installed 6.2 on a Supermicro P8SCT and I found that the loader
> would hang after a few seconds unless I disabled the Adaptec 29160's BIOS.
>
> It also has a 3ware 8006-2LP (which I am booting off). The SCSI card only has
> a tape drive on it though so I'm surprised it would install a BIOS at all
> (after probing)
>
> Interestingly the hang only occurred when booting the installed version - when
> booting from the CD it worked perfectly..
>

That's because loader won't touch hadrdrives when booting from CD.

> Anyone seen anything similar? Any suggestions for debugging? :)

Have you tried to boot anything else (Linux, Windows, etc)? Probably,
the Host adapter's BIOS is broken, so try to update it to the latest
version.

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE