Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:20:10 -0800 From: nathan@khmere.com To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.2-RELEASE will not boot after install ? Message-ID: <3A2F1E0A.BC5ADBC9@khmere.com> References: <3A2ECD7A.1E6A1FF3@khmere.com> <200012070207.eB727C506188@whizzo.transsys.com>
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"Louis A. Mamakos" wrote: > I had the same problem on an old PPro box. The BIOS seemingly doesn't > like the new (2 sector long) boot manager. If you fire up sysinstall > again, and tell it to install the "standard bootblocks" (forgot the > exact phrase), rather than the boot manager, you'll probably be OK. > > louie > > > Don't know if I should post here but.... > > > > I just installed 4.2-RELEASE onto a ppro 200 (had linux) the install > > went without a hich. Then when I rebooted, the box just stopped. It > > seemed like it could not read the mbr. So I booted again off the > > floppies and I used the loader to switched the currdev to the harddrive > > (disk1s1a) it found the hardrive. I then loaded the kernel from the > > harddrive and booted off the harddrive. After I was up on the box I then > > ran disklabel -B ad0 and thought that maybe the installation did not add > > the boot reccord info. Rebooted agian to have the same problem as > > before. I then tried it agian with the flags for the boot code, no > > luck. Finally I dd out the first 512 blocks of the harddrive and ran > > strings on it. Seems that thier was nothing their ! so I was lucky > > enough to have another 4.2 box and I just copied its first 512 blocks. > > Now it boots fine ! > > > > Is their a known issue with this ? or maybe I did something wrong ? > > > > thank you > > > > nathan > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Hey thanks !! I finally got a reply from this list for once :-) (please flames for that !!) I think maybe you are right but I stil don't understand why the mbr was different between my 2 4.2-RELEASE box's ? The one that worked was 4.2 by make world... so maybe it has the left over boot code ? I thought that it gets made and updated with make world ? anyway no big deal, at least if someone else has the problem they can read these posts !! thanks once agian nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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