Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:40:58 -0800 (PST) From: Portie Owner <portieowner@yahoo.com> To: Portie Owner <portieowner@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-system disk or disk error Message-ID: <20051107214059.22542.qmail@web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051104175442.98421.qmail@web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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I don't know if this is poor netiquete or not but I am bumping my own question in case anyone missed it. Basically my 5.4 installation will not boot up from a "warm" reboot but will boot with no problems from a power-off situation. Thanks. --- Portie Owner <portieowner@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am sure there is an easy solution to this but here > is my problem, and it is driving me nuts. > > The error message on boot is "Non-system disk or > disk > error". I only get this message if I do a warm > reboot > with no power off. If I halt the system and power > off > and restart it boots right up. > > Computer is a Compaq AP500 (P-II 450mhz, 700MB Ram, > Adaptec SCSI card). The system has two SCSI drives, > "C:" which is at ID 1 and "D:" which is at ID 2. > The > OS is FreeBDS 5.4, standard installation using the > FreeBSD-only boot manager (I also tried the > alternate > FreeBSD boot choice). No other OSs reside on the > machine and I have tried to start with a clean DOS > Fdisked bachine before installing FreeBSD. The PC > does not have the Compaq bios partition installed > but > that does not seem to matter. I have not been able > to > upgrade the ROM BIOS on this machine, but the Compaq > Diagnostics and Setup programs seem to work and > report > the right information about the disks. I even tried > disabling floppy and CD media boot but that dodn't > help either. > > Thanks, Portie > > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in > one click. > http://farechase.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > 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" > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
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