Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:11:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Odd Boot Menu Message-ID: <199904101911.PAA13832@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Thursday, a co-worker installed 3.1 on his PC. Things went pretty well using a bootable CD I made by downloading off of freebsd.org, but there is one really weird thing going on at boot time. He gets a menu at startup for choosing an OS, F1 DOS F2 DOS F3 FreeBSD F4 Disk 0 With a strange (to me) final 'Disk 0' entry. What's stranger is that if he picks F1, F2, or F3, the machine just beeps and does nothing. He _has to_ pick F4. At this point, he gets the same menu printed again below the first, F1 DOS F2 DOS F3 FreeBSD But no 'Disk 0' entry. And this time, he can choose FreeBSD and boot cleanly the rest of the way. Now, this is just an annoyance when someone is sitting at the console; you have to hit two buttons instead one. But if for some reason the machine came down and up unattended, it comes to the first menu with 'F3' (or one of the other OSs) as the default. If you just let it sit, it will start to beep just as if a person had chosen anything but 'Disk 0.' This means the machine would not come up again on its own, but sit and beep until someone walked up and it 'F4.' Anyone know why it is doing it or how to fix? I suspect it might be an unusual BIOS setting, but nothing really bad comes to mind from the way he has his machine setup. Once again, it's a fresh install of 3.1 which has shown this oddity since the first reboot. The machine is a PII with every kind of drive you can think of, IDE HD, IDE CDROM, IDE LS-120 floppy, SCSI Jaz, SCSI Zip, and SCSI WORM (all of which were recognized beautifully by the GENERIC kernel *applause*). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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