Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:55:14 -0500 (EST) From: <stanb@panix.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Stable List) Subject: Can't boot off of hard disk Message-ID: <200012161955.OAA01320@panix2.panix.com>
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I am trying to set up 4 almost identical HP Vectras for FreeBSD 4.2 STABLE to use at work. 3 of them ar P75's and all is well with them. The 4th is a PP90 (VL5/90) with a much later BIOS. I started out with 4 brand new Quantam 20G drives. The P75's BISO only sees these as ~8G, but all seems to work fine in FreeBSD. I set these up, as I normally do in "Dangerously dedicated" boot. mode. The P90 has many more BISO choices about the hard disk, and I have played with many combinations of them. I have also tried useing a 4G disk on it, I have also tried installing and creating a good bootable4 disk on one of the other machines, then installing it in the P90. None of the above has resulted in a system that will boot off of the hard disk. Folowing some advice from teh Questiosn list, I tried re-installing from floppy/ftp 4.1, choosing to install BootEasy. After the isntall was complet, but before rebooting, I did the following: 1. ftp /boot/boot0 from a working 3.4 machine 2. boot0cfg -B -b /tmp/boot0 (that's wehre I ftp'd it to). The result of this is a machien that boots to the "F1 FreeBBSD" prompt, which is further than I was getting before, but at that point, pressing F! or return, only results in an angry beep from the machine. I have been fighting this one machine off and on for over 2 weeks now, and this is begining to look pretty bad for FreebSD to the powers that be at work. BTW the 4G disk had NT on it originally, and the machine booted hapily from it. Can anyone make some sugestions as to other things to try to make this machien work? Booting off a floppy is not really an aceptable long term solution for this, since it will be a production critical machine. Thanks for any help, in reliving my frustration which curenlty == MAX!! -- 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-stable" in the body of the message
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