From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 17:54:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819E116A41F for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:54:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from portieowner@yahoo.com) Received: from web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0510643D48 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:54:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from portieowner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 98423 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Nov 2005 17:54:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wpaQ92mzEzS1NxzUiDBIgqN6Zx8yeGoVgm+ohHQeDY2Ar5Bk7QM4DphTt9Q7SvblPqmd9pTHfTWN79lo/cmxJIlaWLA6tI/U44rbIXyBj40AAZ7kCCPyp1/dy8on1dxS6MIjBAIJAbLNHZQDnVxIY+s3pnEXbVO4czdJj9DLyF8= ; Message-ID: <20051104175442.98421.qmail@web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.8.65.72] by web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:54:42 PST Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:54:42 -0800 (PST) From: Portie Owner To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <0d4701c5df18$2c3d9650$c901a8c0@workdog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Non-system disk or disk error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:54:43 -0000 I am sure there is an easy solution to this but here is my problem, and it is driving me nuts. The error message on boot is "Non-system disk or disk error". I only get this message if I do a warm reboot with no power off. If I halt the system and power off and restart it boots right up. Computer is a Compaq AP500 (P-II 450mhz, 700MB Ram, Adaptec SCSI card). The system has two SCSI drives, "C:" which is at ID 1 and "D:" which is at ID 2. The OS is FreeBDS 5.4, standard installation using the FreeBSD-only boot manager (I also tried the alternate FreeBSD boot choice). No other OSs reside on the machine and I have tried to start with a clean DOS Fdisked bachine before installing FreeBSD. The PC does not have the Compaq bios partition installed but that does not seem to matter. I have not been able to upgrade the ROM BIOS on this machine, but the Compaq Diagnostics and Setup programs seem to work and report the right information about the disks. I even tried disabling floppy and CD media boot but that dodn't help either. Thanks, Portie __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com