From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 14 15:51: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7146737B405 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 15:51:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16wsph-000NTq-00; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:50:53 +0100 To: otis@wilbury.sk, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot hang in boot0 on ASUS motherboard In-Reply-To: <20020414202329.GB19815@wilbury.sk> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:50:53 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > but problem is: I can't select OS to boot. Pressing of F1..F4 > generates beeps and no selection is possible. Is this a bug in boot0 > or BIOS or am I doing something wrong? I'm hopeless :-/ Well, Id use systinstall to write the boot sector myself so I cant comment on how you wrote it, but the beep I have seen before. I've seen this on Compaq's - mine does it. I found that the solution was to always leave the machine turned off for at least 5 seconds, and not to touch any keys until you get the F1-F4 options then the key should work. Dont do anythign like hiting escape to skip the memory test - that is a dead cert to make it do the beeping thing. It bugged the hell out of me for a long time - I still get caught by it when I reboot the machine (which is rarely) hope this helps, -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message