From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 10 8:27:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from tandem.milestonerdl.com (tandem.milestonerdl.com [204.107.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A05D37B407 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tandem (tandem [204.107.138.1]) by tandem.milestonerdl.com (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id f9AFY8w0017207 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:34:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:34:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Marc Rassbach To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Compaq presario 5340 series CM0900 doesn't boot correctly Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Trying to install FreeBSD 4.3/4.4 from CD, when the intall process goes to touch the hard drive, it claims it can not write to the drive, and the install fails. I can install the OS on a different box, put that drive in the compaq, and it will boot. Once. The second boot will either give me a trashed boot loader or a crash w/register dump. Any ideas how to get past these problems beyond replacing the box or going to SCSI? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message