From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 13 12:48:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27156 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27146 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:48:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06360; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:48:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:48:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Chris Landauer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 laptop failures 8-( In-Reply-To: <199811130449.UAA02223@rush.aero.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Chris Landauer wrote: > > hi, all - > > i have a dell latitude laptop which has run freebsd most of its life (well, > after i finished myst, anyway 8-)) > > the sad story (probly irrelevant): > i think i broke the boot blocks on the hard disk > > i have tried to resurrect it repeatedly in several ways > > i can get a very old windows 3.1 to run on it (because i have a > gateway laptop also, and used their boot disk and an old w3.1 floppy > disk set) > > when i try to boot it from the hard disk, it goes through some of the usual > bootup procedure, then stops with 'read error' > > when i try to use the freebsd 2.2.7 or 2.2.5 boot floppy, it allows me to do > the setup configuration, then fails with 'panic: page fault' Ouch. The 'read error' comes from making a disk dediated (ie, no partition table) and your BIOS can't handle it. You'll have to reinstall, and select 'yes' to the question 'do you want to make this partition compatible with future operating systems?'. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message