From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 11:38: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D628F150C7 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:37:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA29794 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:27:26 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3804D182.9B789566@csl.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:37:54 +0100 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Problems getting 3.3-Release onto a HP Netserver LC 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have the Netserver with 1 ATAPI CDROM 3 x 9GB disks in the hot-swap tray - one of these to be the system disk. Adaptec 7880 w' SCSI BIOS 1.34S1 Suspecting nothing, I initially booted from the CD-ROM and did an install. On coming back up for the first time I got the dreaded "Read error", telling me there was a problem reading the boot sector. I've been to http://www.uk.freebsd.org/search/search.html and searched the FAQ and handbook for HP AND Netserver which turned up http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html reading these, I ended up at http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#DEDICATE But I thought I hit pay dirt when I came across http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1642806+1645868+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-questions/19990321.freebsd-questions According to this I install the HP utility partition, then install BSD without changing the boot sector. I did these steps, taking care that my old / was fsck'd. That is, I chose the "leave MBR untouched" option while doing the disk laying out. This time, on reboot I got: UP12: missing partition boot sector. At which point I decided to mail the list 8). Has anyone any idea what is (not) going on here? Many thanks, Adam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message