Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:53:55 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum <jkb@best.com> To: Steven Fletcher <ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Read error" on bootup....... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980328105145.2039E-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <351de09b.4814262@mailhost.shellnet.co.uk>
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I had the same problem on my PII when I installed 2.2.6-RELEASE. How big is the scsi drive on your machine? On mine the drive is 8Gig and I think that was the problem. My way around it was to make two freebsd partitions which is probably not idea since I hate to see F1 BSD F2 BSD prompt every time I reboot (which should be very very rare, but still). :) -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Steven Fletcher wrote: >Greetings............ > >I've just installed FreeBSD 3.0 on a machine with 2 Pro's and 256 MB >ram, on a SCSI disk. When attemping to boot, I simply receive the >following error: > >Read error > >That's it. If I put the 3.0 boot floppy into the drive, I can send the >boot options to be: > >0:sd(0,a)kernel > >And all is well, I can boot up with no problems. However, I'd like to >be able to boot off the harddisk (The partiton is active) without any >user intervention. Could anyone tell me why this is happening, and >possibly on how to fix it? > >Thanks; > >-Steven Fletcher (steven@shellnet.co.uk) > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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