From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 20 2:58:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E19537B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 02:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF9243E65 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 02:58:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17sKYD-00038d-00 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:58:17 +0100 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compaq Deskpro EN booting problem Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:58:17 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I moved a disk system from a Compaq AP400 workstation to a Deskpro EN - this consisted of a 4200 RAID controller and a set of discs. The ssystem had a small (39MB) diagnistics partition on it, a 1GB Windows 200 partition to use the array diagnostics software, and the rest (about 8GB) was FreeBSD 4.7-PRE All worked fine. So last night we decided to scrub the redundant diagnostics partion and put 2000 back onto the whole of that first section of the disc. removing the diagnostics partiona has had an interesting effect - the machine will not boot!! I have re-written the FreeBSD boot manager onto the disc, and it comes up and lists the partitions, but if I press the key foor my FreeBSD partition I just get a steady 'BEEP'. Its puzzling the hell out of me - what does the 'beep' mean from the boot manager ? How can removing one partitoon affect a completely differnt bit of the drive ? I have a feeling this is a Compaqism - I have tried to put the partitions back, and I can even get it to boot DOS off the first partition. help! -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message