From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 21:47:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA03206 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:47:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA03196 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00599; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:47:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael Roark cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help with laptop install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Michael Roark wrote: > I am currently trying to install FBSD 2.2.2 on a Hitachi c-120 laptop. I > chose to make this a un*x only machine, so there is no DOS partition to > confuse the issue. > The install went fine - no problems with the ethernet card or detecting > any internals. However, when I went to reboot I got the message 'read > error' along with a very unfriendly blinking cursor. It doesn't seem to > want to read the drive after reboot. > > Any suggestions from the laptop crowd? What's the output of fdisk's partition display? I'm particularly interested in sizes of the partitions...I bet you're violating the 500mb limit. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo