From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 11:10:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09245 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:10:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM [206.171.98.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA09240 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:10:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA06324; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:09:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:09:54 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD bootup problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > > Can you be more specific, ie where exactly it fails? Can you boot with a > > > boot floppy OK? How about '?' at the Boot: prompt, does that show any > > > files? > > > > Floppies will always work, I meant the HD. Normally, it would > > have that bootstrap where it would allow you to boot with options but the > > only thing that comes up is Read error and no message even before the > > brief pause normally. > > booteasy may be damaged then, you might try reinstalling it. No idea, I don't use booteasy since it's a FreeBSD only drive on the second HD and I use System Commander but that doesn t write to the second HD. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]