Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:03:14 -0400 From: "Clarence Brown" <clabrown@granitepost.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD Won't Boot - Laptop Message-ID: <000101c00946$f6b82d80$8c6896d1@granitepost.com> In-Reply-To: <200008181844.LAA14687@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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Just curious if this bug is "going" to be on the 4.1 subscription CD, which I expect to see real soon now? > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of John Baldwin > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 2:44 PM > To: John Johnson > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD Won't Boot - Laptop > > > John Johnson wrote: > > I've installed FreeBSD 4.1 on my Dell Inspiron 3200, > > and the installation appears to have gone fine. On > > restarting the system, though, FreeBSD won't boot. > > I've gone through the install several times now, with > > the same result. I am using the entire hard disk (3.9 > > GB), and I've set the slice as bootable. My partitions > > are as follows: > > > > / 100M > > swap 228M (I've 128M RAM) > > /var 81M > > /usr 3500M > > > > After the install is complete, the system reboots and > > sits at a blinking underline cursor. > > > > Is this a problem with the MBR? The stange thing is, > > if I insert my Windows 2000 install CD and don't > > select to run from CD, FreeBSD will boot, so I'm > > assuming the problem is with the boot sector on my > > hard drive. > > Yes, there was a bug in the boot0 binary shipped with 4.1 > RELEASE. :( I've just added an errata entry for this to > the website, although it won't show up until tomorrow. Here > is the text though: > > The FreeBSD Boot Manager (boot0) has a bug that causes it to > hang the machine > during boot with no screen output. > > Fix: Boot your machine into FreeBSD either via a boot floppy > or a CD-ROM, then > download a new boot0 binary from the following location: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/4.1R/i386/boot0 > > Once you have downloaded the new binary, install it with the > boot0cfg command > onto your hard disk. For example, if you have boot0 on disk > ad0, you would > run the following command: > > /usr/sbin/boot0cfg -B -b /path/to/downloaded/boot0 ad0 > > You may also use cvsup to update your source tree and build > the new boot0 > binary from source. You will need version 1.14.2.3 of > src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.s or newer. > > The MD5 checksum of this file is: > > MD5 (boot0) = 8770a386dba44f0aa06b15db72c1f624 > > To verify the checksum of your downloaded copy, perform the following > command: > > /sbin/md5 /path/to/downloaded/boot0 > > and compare with the above. > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > John Johnson > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > > 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
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