Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:13:00 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: ceia.nordier.com@ceia.nordier.com (Craig Johnston) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failure to boot after 3.1-RELEASE install Message-ID: <199903112113.XAA02967@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990311134550.11539A-100000@jane.lfn.org> from Craig Johnston at "Mar 11, 99 01:56:12 pm"
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[Cross-posted: replying to -bugs]
> I saw the exact same problem mentioned once before on the lists
> and I was wondering if any headway had been made on the problem.
> (reference message id <199810181251.IAA17735@vger.foo.com> )
Five months is a long time, where the new boot code is concerned.
FWIW, there's actually no chance that the problem you have has
anything to do with that reported in PR 8368, mentioned above.
> The system: Tyan Thunder II mobo, 2 x PII @ 266
> 384 megs SDRAM
> adaptec 7895 onboard
> fast/wide 9 gig WD scsi disk
>
> I am installing 3.1-RELEASE I got off ftp.cdrom.com last night.
>
> The install goes fine, but when I reboot and it comes up off
> the hard disk, at the F1: Freebsd, etc. prompt, when it either
> times out or you press F1, it just beeps. Further keypresses
> elicit further beeps but nothing real ever happens.
Is there an
F5 Drive 0
line displayed? If so, this is a known BIOS compatibility issue,
and there's a fix available at
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot0-1.7.tar.gz
If not, something was almost certainly wrongly configured, somehow,
during the installation. If you can boot from floppy, sending along
the output of the commands
fdisk da0
disklabel da0
dd if=/dev/rda0 count=1
dd if=/dev/rda0s1 count=17 (assuming FreeBSD is slice 1)
will probably enable us to sort out what went wrong and get you
booting.
--
Robert Nordier
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