From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 20 16:56:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0381016A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:56:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC8E43D49 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:56:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5KGt6tA005632; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:55:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:55:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20040620.105508.30170319.imp@bsdimp.com> To: avleeuwen@piwebs.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <25271.212.83.93.49.1087477105.squirrel@winston.piwebs.com> References: <25271.212.83.93.49.1087477105.squirrel@winston.piwebs.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader failure when booting from CompactFlash X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:56:40 -0000 In message: <25271.212.83.93.49.1087477105.squirrel@winston.piwebs.com> avleeuwen@piwebs.com writes: : Is there something strange about the BIOS of this PC that requires special : options for the bootloader? If not, is there a way to stop the system from : rebooting so that I can see the error message? You got the geometry of the CF wrong. Fix that and try again. I wish that I could be more helpful, but I've had this error hundreds of times and it was always the geometry in the fdisk being wrong. Warner