From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 3 6:29:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2D537B405 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 06:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id PAA31353; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 15:39:04 +0200 Message-ID: <3B41C960.5F781C20@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:32:16 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Pelletier, Michael" Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: New install breaks on reboot with "Read error" References: <4993EB20A01FD411B22700D0B77CF68801D394DB@ash.sycamorenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Pelletier, Michael" schrieb: > > Hello, > > I recently built some FreeBSD machines on some Dells. Everything > went well except on a older Dell (Pentium II). On my first reboot, it halted > with an error of "Read error". Has anyone seen this before or know of a fix? Happened to me once with a battered old P133. It's IDE hard disk was near death, and died in due course about a week later. Replaced the dead drive, box worked without problems for another year or so. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message