my e450 has fallen and won't boot up!

[Chris Jackman]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:35:12PM -0500, John wrote:

> I can no longer boot FreeBSD. I reinstalled 5.1 beta,
> no joy. I installed 5.1R on same drive (newfsed). Then thinking something 
> in the installed hosed eeprom i did a set-defaults. still no joy, so i 
> tried installing on a different disk.  same thing. It always hangs at the 
> same point. The odd thing is Solaris boots with no issues. This is the only 
> thing i get on the console. I also don't have serial port access so this 
> is a pen & paper screen dump.  BTW disk 1 is solaris, and if there is 
> anything i can do from solaris to help just let me know. Disk 2 and 3 
> are FreeBSD 5.1R.

Maybe there's a problem with the disk ?

In solaris, you could try the 'format' utility in solaris to verify
the disk.  There are three non-destructive tests you can do.  (Or
you could choose the destructive tests, if you want to reinstall again.)

Non destructive tests: type format, choose the disk, type analyze, 
then you can choose your test: read, refresh, or test.

You could also try 'test-scsi' or 'probe-scsi' (probe-scsi-all?) from
the eeprom console.