Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 15:17:18 +0000 From: Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net> To: Kelly Wiles <kelly@xactinc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot from 'C' drive, why? Message-ID: <33BD13FE.1601AA74@nconnect.net> References: <33BD101E.4FA9D047@xactinc.com>
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Kelly Wiles wrote: > > I can not boot up from the 'C' drive any more. It use to work > until I upgraded to 2.2. > > When I have the system board configured to use the 'C' drive > first, I get a 'Read error'. > The read error is happening because the system is going out to > the floppy drive and I do not have a diskette in it. > > I can bootup under a floppy and then enter the > sd(0,a)/kernel > And this works fine. > > I have re-installed twice, tried disklabel. > > When I installed I choose to use the complete drive for > FreeBSD. > > System configuration: > Micron P166 > 48 meg memory > Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller > Drive 1 2.5gig > Drive 2 1.5gig SYJET > Drive 3 CDROM 10x > Drive 4 CDROM 6x > I have identical problems with the Micronics M54Pe ( EISA/PCI DUAL CPU ) mainboards that I used to use. I have the problem with ALL versions of FreeBSD. I'm pretty sure it's a BIOS issue. I was able to get around it by creating a small DOS partition (5Meg) on the drive and using booteasy. For me it was convienient as I could keep my EISA config utilities on the hard disk. There may be other ( and better ) solutions but I've not been able to find one. I too tried many different things with disk geometries etc. but the small DOS partition ALWAYS worked. Hope this helps! Randy
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