Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 02:38:03 +0100 From: joefat <joefat@mac.com> To: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd on an old compaq Message-ID: <8B9A68FF-802C-11D7-AC67-0030654886A6@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <Sea1-F129Yx3G5aYY61000001e9@hotmail.com>
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Hi Charlie The Compaq (Now HP) Web site has a confusingly organised but very rich resource of BIOS utilities etc. With some Compaq machines you need to install a utility in order to gain full BIOS functionality. Also, Doug is quite right, the FreeBSD boot floppies use the whole disk so there is no room for a dud sector. Use a new disk to be sure. Hope this helps Matt On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 09:53 PM, clayton rollins wrote: > > >> >> On Tue, 6 May 2003 12:45:39 "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> wrote: >> >> >> > Charley <bsd@agileemmy.com> said: >> > >> > I recently won a Compaq ProLiant 5000R in an auction on Ebay. It >> > arrived yesterday and now I want to put FreeBSD on it. >> Unfortunately, > I can't seem to find a way to cause the system to >> boot from the CD and >> > booting from the floppy returns an "Unexpected EOF" on the kernel >> > (kern.flp). Is there something else that I need? >> > >> >> Check the BIOS for boot order or boot sequence and see if a CDROM >> device is in the list. If it is, make it the first boot device and >> re-try. >> >> As for the floppy, I've seen the "Unexpected EOF" error because of >> old or bad floppy media. Try brand-new floppy disks. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Doug >> > > Hi Charley, > > On one of the older compaqs I recently worked on, there was no BIOS > setting for the boot device. Instead the system looked ahead at the > disks to find bootable disks and booted them in the order: cd-rom, > floppy, HD. > > If that's the case, just put it in the drive and boot away. (Note that > the disk has to be present during POST for this to work; put it in and > reboot.) > > Peace, > Clayton > > _________________________________________________________________ > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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