Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:35:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Michael A. Urban" <mds@usa.nai.net> Cc: Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from Hard Disk! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961029213242.369D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610292240.RAA08239@usa.nai.net>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Michael A. Urban wrote: > I have an HP Vectra VL4 Tower with an Adaptec 1542 Host Adapter and a DEC > 1GB SCSI HD along with a 4x Toshiba SCSI CDROM. Diagnostics show the host > adapter and HD to be fine. I am actually able to complete the installation > without any snags. The entire drive is being used for FreeBSD and I've > tried new installations with and without the Boot Manager. The problem I > get on boot is "No Operating System Found". The partition is set to active > and bootable. Try setting another partition active on the first disk. This will sometimes barf if you also have IDE enabled; then you will need to start using a boot floppy and typing sd(0,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. > I took the SCSI HD out of the system and put IDE in. Get through the > entire install with no errors. The BIOS is not set to protect the boot > track. On boot I get "Read Error". If I put the bootdisk in and type > sd(0,a)kernel at the boot: the system boots up fine off the IDE drive. No, wrong. sd is the SCSI disk, wd is the IDE disk. > If I do the same thing off the SCSI Drive (with IDE disabled in BIOS) I > get a continously scrolling column up the left side of the screen > showing the device numbers but not boot up. Odd. Sounds like the boot blocks may have gotten screwed up. You might try reinstalling. Does your SCSI controller have a BIOS on it? I assume the 1542s do.... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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