Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:38:22 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta Message-ID: <b2807d0404090620083b248f29@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGELPGKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <BAY18-DAV8EnVmb9yCa00034716@hotmail.com> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGELPGKAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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Whats your motherboard make and BIOS version? Off late I have seen some Phoenix BIOS incorporate something called "Enhanced MEmory Driving" Signals which are necessary to make some DRAMs work correctly. Regards S. On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:01:07 -0400, JJB <barbish3@adelphia.net> wrote: > Pedro > I do not understand what you mean by > "I just reinstalled the my "win boot device" and obviously, windows > started to run again." > What is a win boot device? > > Are you trying to say you reinstalled windows from scratch using the > MS/Windows install cd? > That you lost your old windows partition and all the data in it? > > Or that this win boot device thing fixed your hard drive so the > FreeBSD operating system boot menu F1 boots your windows system and > F2 boots your 5.3 FreeBSD system? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of pedro > Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:15 PM > To: jason > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta > > Ok, > > I just reinstalled the my "win boot device" and obviously, > windows > started to run again... although the horrible "beep" problem happens > everytime I reboot my pc from FreeBSD (whenever I boot my pc from > windows, > it resets normally!). According to my motherboard manual, the beep > sound > matches the one that is described as no DRAM installed or detected. > As told by one of you guys here, about the LBA, I just couldn't > find any > option in my bios to change this... :( > I tried to load my bios default configuration (in order to clear > whatever the FreeBSD instalation has done to it) but the problem > remained... > Does anyone have any idea about what to do? > > I just got happy when I saw you answered my question, > Thank you. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jason" <jason@ec.rr.com> > To: "Pedro n/a" <napalmblood@hotmail.com> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:51 AM > Subject: Re: MBR problem with FreeBSD 5.3 beta > > > Pedro n/a wrote: > > > > > In the first time I rebooted my computer, after I've finished > the > > > installation of this version, my motherboard started to beep and > I > > > didn't know what to do. > > > After reseting the computer I realized that I could no longer > "boot" > > > my Windows. I did selected it from BootMng and it gave no > response. > > > Even though I tried to use FDISK /MBR to rewrite the MBR, all my > > > effords were in vain and I couldn't start windows again. > > > Recently I've reinstalled an old release version (trustworthy) > but > > > windows still unable to boot. > > > Does anyone know anything that could be helpful? > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Pedro > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > MSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. > > > http://messenger.msn.com.br > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > Can you boot freebsd? What was the beep code, you mb manual will > tell > > what it means. Sounds like a hardware problem with the beeping. > Try > > looking for a boot disk image online and boot windows from that. > I have > > 5.3beta3 from yesterday, no problems. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India
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