From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 19 18:50: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524CF37B424 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8K1nvi59375; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:49:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8K1ldZ85859; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:47:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200009200140.MAA26618@lightning.itga.com.au> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Gregory Bond Subject: Re: 4.1 install won't boot (but 4.0 will!) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Sep-00 Gregory Bond wrote: > I wrote: > >> But when we try and boot the machine from the hard disk, it won't boot. All >> we >> get (after the POST) is a single "-" in the top LH corner of the screen. No >> whirly, no error messages, no BTX loader banner, nothing but the single "-". > > Thanks to Harlan Stenn for politely pointing out the ERRATA.TXT entry. > Dunno why I didn't remember reading about this on -stable..... Hmm. If you are getting the spinning whirly thing in the corner, then you are in boot1 and out of boot0, so changing boot0 should make no difference. Do you have the latest boot1 and boot2 installed via disklabel -B? Granted, the old bootblocks should work fine with the new boot0. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message