Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:54:03 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <optix@nyc.rr.com> To: "David Campbell" <dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bizarre rituals to reboot Message-ID: <00ac01c0c43a$581851f0$01000001@darkstar> References: <3AD72C86.C73F47F5@mail.utexas.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David, When you first installed FreeBSD, did you fdisk the drive? Did you install a boot manager? What kind of a hard drive is this machine running? - -- Jonathan M. Slivko ~~~~ Jonathan M. Slivko <optix@nyc.rr.com> Systems Administrator, DataSyrge Internet Services IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Network Pager: (917) 388-5304 Website: http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/ (PGP Key @ http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/jslivko.asc) ~~~~ - ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Campbell" <dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:42 PM Subject: Bizarre rituals to reboot > I am a newbie. After playing with an initial install of FreeBSD 4.2 > for a little over a week, changing and modifying files to my > heart's > content, I did a clean re-install to start from a known point, at a > different security level than I had originally installed with. The > install, on a Compaq Workstation AP400 with 256MB RAM, 4GB hard > drive, appears to go flawlessly, regardless of how many partitions > or slices I create, or boot manager I use (if any). On reboot, I > get "Non-System disk or disk error." > > After a couple of days wrestling with this, I have discovered that > if after the install, I put in a Win98 boot disk, look at the drive > with FDISK (making no changes, just looking at partitions), take > out the Win98 disk, the machine boots to FreeBSD just fine. If I > then reboot, I get the error. I continue to get the error on > reboots until I look at the drive with FDISK. At that point, the > boot-God is appeased, and it works fine. > > Does anyone have any insight into what is going on with this? > > Dave > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBOtcvKD4aolq8K4tFEQLb0QCgxoqClbbR4odm3YeWK/qsfSjSvtsAnjgb coefS9Cryu5qAitG8bQrqSSg =8/Ls -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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