From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 1 18:57: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973BB37B66F; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA25448; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:57:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:57:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Gregory Bond Cc: Shawn Barnhart , John Baldwin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Kayak XA series vs FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200010020038.LAA04965@lightning.itga.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Gregory Bond wrote: >>When I get the initial boot menu I have a choice of F1 for DOS, F2 for >>FreeBSD and F5 for Disk 2. I cannot choose F2 -- all I get is a beep, >>it will not timeout to that choice either. > >We had the same problem. It seems there is some sort of problem with the new >1024-byte boot0 on the HP XA boxes. John Baldwin was going to send me some >debugging boot0s but he's obviously been busy. > >Our workaround was to install the 512-byte boot0 from the 4.0 CD. We did this >by booting the 4.1 CD, using the 4.1 Fixit floppies (because the 4.1 Fixit CD >didn't work!), then copying the boot0 from a 4.0 CD into /boot, then using >boot0cfg to install it. FWIW, the new boot0 caused problems for me when installing 4.1 on a dual booting Intel DK440LX motherboard w/ onboard AIC7895. The system would never even get to loading boot0, the BIOS didn't like it. I just installed OSBS 1.35 on it and the system has been running happily since. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message