From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 0:16:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA7437B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 00:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f4O7G2k77409; Thu, 24 May 2001 00:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "David S. Geirsson" , Subject: RE: Boot problems Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:16:02 -0700 Message-ID: <000501c0e421$637f1360$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010523103842.C1083@bong.andmann.eu.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've installed on a few of those HP Vectra's. What you want to do is clear the disk, then create a 10MB DOS partition. Then, when installing, in fdisk select the compatible mode and put FreeBSD in the remaining space, and make that second partition active. Finally, don't install the Boot Selector (the program that puts up "press F1 for Dos, F2 for FreeBSD) just leave the MBR alone. When the system boots, the BIOS sniffs the hard disk for what it thinks is a "correct" boot sector, and the BIOS only seems to understand DOS boot sectors. It will happily boot off the second partition if that partition is active, as long as it sees a DOS boot sector telling it to boot from the second partition. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David S. >Geirsson >Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 3:39 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Boot problems > > >I have an old HP Vectra p75 machine here. For some reason, it refuses to >boot after I install FreeBSD on it. The win95 installation that was on it >when I got it booted fine. The FreeBSD install booted fine from the >bootdisk, and it installed without a hitch. After the BIOS, >nothing happens. >Just the blinking cursor on the screen. > > >Any ideas? I'm completely stomped. > >-- >Davíð Steinn Geirsson >andmann@andmann.eu.org >(354)-8696608 > >"Support staff hung over, Send aspirin and come back LATER." > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message