Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:47:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Vectra 5/90 hard disk boot disaster continues! Message-ID: <20001218024707.1FDDA37B400@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200012172249.eBHMnTp01225@nordier.com> from "Robert Nordier" at Dec 18, 2000 12:49:19 AM
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On Sun Dec 17 17:49:19 2000 Robert Nordier wrote... > >John Baldwin wrote: >> On 17-Dec-00 stanb@panix.com wrote: >> > This is fast aproaching ridiculous! >> > >> > This bloody &$#@$$#!! machine just doesn't want to run FreeBSD. >> > >> > Found a CD (a second one BTW the machine would see, but not read the first >> > one!) installed it, and created boot floppies from my 4.0 CD set. >> > >> > Booted off the CD's choose "Install Boot Manager", chose FreeBSD boot >> > manager, and it STILL boots up to the "F1 FreeBSD" prompt, and will only >> > rewatd me with angry beeps no matter what I do there. >> >> It sounds like the geometry that your BIOS is using for your hard drive doesn't >> match the geometry that sysinstall is using during the installation. Get into >> the BIOS and write down the geoemtery it has for your hard drive. Reinstall >> and when you are in the fdisk editor in sysinstall use 'g' to set the geometry >> if they do not match. > >Also, choosing the "standard MBR" rather than "boot manager" option >in sysinstall should get you better diagnostics. Thaks, that plus setting the drive geometry to the (icorrect) one that the BIOS was using made everythign work. Thanks for the help. -- Stan Brown stanb@awod.com 843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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