Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 23:56:17 -0500 (EST) From: <stanb@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: Machine wont boot from hard disk after install Message-ID: <200012090456.XAA02835@panix6.panix.com>
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I am installing FreebSD on 4 machines for use at work. All of the machines are varios models of HP Vectras. All are Pentium 1's of various speeds from 75 to 90 MHZ. They have various generations of Hp's BIOS. I have installed brand new 20G Quantum drives in all of the. 3 of the four are fine. However the 4'th one (which I think has a _newer_ BIOS that the others) Will not boot after doing an install. I just get "Read Error". I have played around with the setting relating to the hard disk in the bIOS, but have not lucked up on a combination that works. Can anyone give me some advice on how they should be set up? The BISO comments actually talk about "UNIX" operating systems. For example recomending that "transfer mode" be ste to stnadard. But i think it's refering to SCO. This machine has a "Runing Windows 95" choice which I have ste to "NO". Should I have LBA on or off? BTW the machine has a "auto detect" of had disk drive, but when I use it, I don;t get anything thta looks like the blocks/cylinders/sectors reported by dmesg on the 3 working systems. Help, please. -- Stan Brown stanb@panix.com 843-745-3154 Charleston SC -- "Be careful not to step in the Microsoft." -- John Denker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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