From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 5:35: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-9-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCCC14D4F for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 05:32:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id PAA01895; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:30:19 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199903021330.PAA01895@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: 3.1R install/multiboot problem In-Reply-To: <199903020906.UAA12029@krakatoa.mpce.mq.edu.au> from Jonathon Earnshaw TIDSWELL at "Mar 2, 99 08:06:16 pm" To: jont@mpce.mq.edu.au (Jonathon Earnshaw TIDSWELL) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:30:18 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon Earnshaw TIDSWELL wrote: > System: Dell OptiPlex GXpro > > disks: > wd0: Quantum 3GB, two NTFS partitions, the first bootable > wd1: Quantum 516MB, 1 freebsd partition > > install using floppies and ftp (ftp.au.freebsd.org) > > 'novice' install appears to complete successfully > > on boot I get two options > > "F1 ??" > "F5 disk1" > > "Default F1:" > > selecting F1 boots NT successfully > selecting F5 bring up a new menu > > "F1 FreeBSD" > "F5 disk0" > > "Default F1:" > > selecting F1 almost immediately results in a dump of the registers and > the message "system halted". > [ The screen hasn't been cleared, or scrolled by messages about device > probing, the problem is early on. ] > > Any suggestions as to whats wrong and how to fix it ? There've been a couple of compatibility problems corrected in the boot code since 3.1-RELEASE; but we'd need the actual register dump to tell whether this is a problem that's been fixed or needs fixing. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message