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Old November 27th, 2008, 08:28
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- IBM X360 (XSeries 360) 19" server machine, IBM XA-32 chipset
- 4 Xeon 1.4 cpus
- 1G registered ram
- ServeRaid 4x-lite SCSI raid controller with 2 18GB harddisks in raid 1 config
- slim-type ide cd-rom

Install:

CD Loader 1.2
Building the boot loader arguments
Loading up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0
.. and i'm waiting waiting waintig.. and nothing happens
Help?
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Old November 27th, 2008, 08:59
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Which version and architecture of the install cd are you using?
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Old November 27th, 2008, 10:23
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I check install
freebsd 5.0-R, 5.1-R, 5.2-R, 6.3-R, 7.0-R, 7.0-S, 8.0-C.
OpenBSD4.3,
NetBSD,
Solaris10,
and only ReDHat9 work.
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Old November 27th, 2008, 13:09
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And which architectures? i386, amd64, ia64...

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Old November 27th, 2008, 22:29
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i386
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Old November 28th, 2008, 06:26
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Try booting by escaping to the loader prompt and booting into verbose mode with:
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boot -v
Or booting with ACPI disabled.
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Are you sure that RAID controller is supported? Some servers have option
to present hard drives as directly attached or via RAID. Try disabling RAID and then booting.
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