Re: 3.0 woe [was: Adaptec 2940 and fresh install problems]

[Kremlyn Vostok <kremlyn@mbox.com.au>]

Flash the 2940 BIOS. That's an excellent idea.  I'd encountered the 
same problems, and replied to this thread once.  My solution was to 
install from an IDE CD drive, and it worked fine.  I'll try upgrading 
the BIOS on the SCSI card, an reinstalling over the top from that - 
I'll keep you posted on the results.  Hopefully in the next week, time 
permitting.

Cheers!

kremlyn

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----- Original Message -----
From: Kit Halsted <kit@kithalsted.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2002 9:35 am
Subject: Re: 3.0 woe [was: Adaptec 2940 and fresh install problems]

> At 2:13 PM +0000 1/1/02, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> >I'd prefer to use the usual "wow" for OpenBSD.
> >
> >I just can't believe that 3.0 will not install on two different 
> motherboards>and assorted hardware capable of running just about 
> every other free 
> >Unix I can
> >lay my hands on. 
> >
> >Using 2.9, I am able to boot from the CD and proceed through the 
> installation>process normally, however the 3.0 CD doesn't boot (it 
> reboots the computer in
> >an endless loop) with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card present.
> <snip>
> 
> I saw a similar thing recently on a weird* box I'm going to use as 
> my 
> home firewall. No SCSI card present, but it would reboot at random 
> *if* it ever got through the boot sequence w/o rebooting. It may 
> not 
> be the same problem, but the symptoms sound similar. The answer 
> for 
> me was a BIOS upgrade for the mobo, after which the only problem I 
> have is a lack of power to keep it running. Since your problem 
> seems 
> to follow the card, I'd check Adaptec's site for an update to the 
> 2940 BIOS. Not much more than a WAG, but it might help.
> 
> -Kit
> 
> *Weird meaning an AT/Socket-7 motherboard with SDRAM & an AGP slot.
> -- 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little 
> temporary 
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> -Benjamin Franklin
> 
> "...qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum"
> (...if you would have peace, be prepared for war)
> -Flavius Vegetius Renatus
> 
> 

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