From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 8:17:44 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 08:17:42 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c004.sfo.cp.net (c004-h009.c004.sfo.cp.net [209.228.14.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A35537B402 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:17:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 17090 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2000 08:17:39 -0800 Received: from cc4443-a.taylor1.mi.home.com (HELO larry) (24.0.58.182) by smtp.namezero.com (209.228.14.66) with SMTP; 20 Dec 2000 08:17:39 -0800 X-Sent: 20 Dec 2000 16:17:39 GMT Message-ID: <006a01c06aa0$1e5989f0$270aa8c0@mavricc.com> From: "Larry Coleman" To: "mark tinguely" , References: <200012201553.eBKFruL10569@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu> Subject: Re: Pentium I box won't cold boot from hard drive! Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:15:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I can cold boot using the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppies. That brings me to the install screen, but if I exit install without doing anything else, it warm boots fine. I'll try the 4.2-RELEASE. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: mark tinguely To: ; Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Pentium I box won't cold boot from hard drive! > > > I installed FreeBSD RELEASE 4.1 on an old Pentium I machine. The install = > > went fine, but for some reason the machine will restart fine, but won't = > > cold boot if it shutdown and turn off the power. Any ideas? > > I think there were some boot block problems with FreeBSD 4.1[.1]-RELEASE. > without more details like can it boot if you use the diskette boot blocks > and manually give the boot command (for example ad(0,a)/kernel) when it > starts booting and other details as the hardware and configuration of the > machine. > > I would highly suggest installing FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE. > > ____________________________________________________________ > Get your free domain name and domain-based e-mail from > Namezero.com. New! Namezero Plus domains now available. > Find out more at: http://www.namezero.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message