From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 17 6: 0: 9 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 06:00:06 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6550237B400 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 06:00:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.0.227]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3266348905 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:00:05 -0500 (EST) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.8.8/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) id JAA20646 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:00:05 -0500 (EST) From: Message-Id: <200012171400.JAA20646@panix2.panix.com> Subject: 2nd try Vectra 5/900 total failure to get to boot off of hard disk To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Stable List) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 09:00:05 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm going to try this again, since clearly I did not make my original message cleat. A number of people have written me, that cleary did not understand the problem, so I must have written a poor problem description. Thanks for the patience. I have a HP Vectra CL5/90 that I am totaly unable to get to boot off the hard disk. I have tried installing from the 4.1 floppies viai ftp. All seems to go well, the hard drive (20G) is proeprly recofgnized, and the install proceds normaly. I habe choosen to _NOT_ use "dabgerously dedicated" I have partioned the drie as follows: 1. / (150M) 2. swap (200M) 3. /var (450M) 4. /usr (remainder) Since I have only used dangerously dedicated mode in the padt, and since I am using a custom setup, i may be making an error here. What if any slices, do I need to mark as bootable by hand? Since my original atempt at this failed, and since I was pointed to an article reference a problem with the boot0 code at 1.2 and newer not working withe some HP Vectras, I repeated the above install. At the end, before reboooting, I did the following: 1. ftp /boot/boo0 from a workign 3.4 system to /tmp 2. boot0cfg -B -b /tmp/booot0 ada At this point in time, the machine boots to the "F1 FreeBSS" prompt. Howver any key I hit, including F1 abd return, just results in an angry beep. This machine has many settings in the BIOS for hard disk setup, transfer mode, PIO mode etc. that I do not understand. I also do not understnad the boot sequence on FreebSD. I have been fighting this machine for ver 2 weeks at this poiny in time and am QUIE frustraded. Could anyone take the time to help eduacte me on what it will take to ge this amchien booting off the ard drive? Thansk for you patience. -- Stan Brown stanb@panix.com 843-745-3154 Charleston SC -- "Be careful not to step in the Microsoft." -- John Denker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message