Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:11:16 -0700 From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> To: David Campbell <dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bizarre rituals to reboot Message-ID: <20010413191116.A36660@darkstar.gte.net> In-Reply-To: <3AD72C86.C73F47F5@mail.utexas.edu>; from dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:42:46AM -0500 References: <3AD72C86.C73F47F5@mail.utexas.edu>
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If SCAM support is enabled on the SCSI controller, try turning it off. [RC] On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:42:46AM -0500, David Campbell wrote: > I am a newbie. After playing with an initial install of FreeBSD 4.2 for > a little over a week, changing and modifying files to my heart's > content, I did a clean re-install to start from a known point, at a > different security level than I had originally installed with. The > install, on a Compaq Workstation AP400 with 256MB RAM, 4GB hard drive, > appears to go flawlessly, regardless of how many partitions or slices I > create, or boot manager I use (if any). On reboot, I get "Non-System > disk or disk error." > > After a couple of days wrestling with this, I have discovered that if > after the install, I put in a Win98 boot disk, look at the drive with > FDISK (making no changes, just looking at partitions), take out the > Win98 disk, the machine boots to FreeBSD just fine. If I then reboot, I > get the error. I continue to get the error on reboots until I look at > the drive with FDISK. At that point, the boot-God is appeased, and it > works fine. > > Does anyone have any insight into what is going on with this? > > Dave > > > 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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