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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:48:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk (Steven Fletcher)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Read error" on bootup.......
Message-ID:  <199803291748.TAA28591@intern>
In-Reply-To: <351de09b.4814262@mailhost.shellnet.co.uk> from Steven Fletcher at "Mar 28, 98 11:42:00 am"

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> Greetings............
> 
> I've just installed FreeBSD 3.0 on a machine with 2 Pro's and 256 MB
> ram, on a SCSI disk. When attemping to boot, I simply receive the
> following error:
> 
> Read error
> 
> That's it. If I put the 3.0 boot floppy into the drive, I can send the
> boot options to be:
> 
> 0:sd(0,a)kernel
> 
> And all is well, I can boot up with no problems. However, I'd like to
> be able to boot off the harddisk (The partiton is active) without any
> user intervention. Could anyone tell me why this is happening, and
> possibly on how to fix it?

I had this on a Siemens machine (Phoenix BIOS). When installing 2.2.5
in the "not dangerously dedicated mode (or how is it called)" the
problem went away. All other (non Siemens machines) machines work great.

	-Andre

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