Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:48:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk (Steven Fletcher) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Read error" on bootup....... Message-ID: <199803291748.TAA28591@intern> In-Reply-To: <351de09b.4814262@mailhost.shellnet.co.uk> from Steven Fletcher at "Mar 28, 98 11:42:00 am"
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> Greetings............ > > I've just installed FreeBSD 3.0 on a machine with 2 Pro's and 256 MB > ram, on a SCSI disk. When attemping to boot, I simply receive the > following error: > > Read error > > That's it. If I put the 3.0 boot floppy into the drive, I can send the > boot options to be: > > 0:sd(0,a)kernel > > And all is well, I can boot up with no problems. However, I'd like to > be able to boot off the harddisk (The partiton is active) without any > user intervention. Could anyone tell me why this is happening, and > possibly on how to fix it? I had this on a Siemens machine (Phoenix BIOS). When installing 2.2.5 in the "not dangerously dedicated mode (or how is it called)" the problem went away. All other (non Siemens machines) machines work great. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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