On Tuesday 08 November 2005 11:52 am, ke.han wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 08:47 am, ke.han wrote: > > > > > > lsdev in the loader uses the BIOS. The kernel is not able to use the > > BIOS to talk to drives. Can you hook up a serial console and capture > > verbose boot messages? We need some more details such as what kind of > > ATA controller you are trying to use. > > The tyan i7520 specs are at: > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderi7520_spec.html > > I would love to capture more info and send it in. Sounds like I need a > serial cable? Any specific pin arrangement? Is there a howto on this? > I have a working laptop with freeBSD 6. Do I just connect the laptop to > the server some way? Just a null modem cable would work fine. There's info in the handbook at www.freebsd.org on how to setup a serial console. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Tue Nov 08 2005 - 16:18:01 UTC
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