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Subject: Belay that Order! [WAS: Problems getting 3.3-Release onto a HP Netserver 
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I should have gone home, but instead I did one more
(obvious) thing, namely I marked the da0s1 slice as
_bootable_, and again chose to leave the MBR
untouched.

I had to newfs my /tmp and /var partitions again,
but that was because I hadn't newfs'd them during
the last install to save time.

Cheers,
Adam.

Adam Nealis wrote:
> 
> I have the Netserver with
> 
> 1 ATAPI CDROM
> 3 x 9GB disks in the hot-swap tray
>   - one of these to be the system disk.
> Adaptec 7880 w' SCSI BIOS 1.34S1
> 
> Suspecting nothing, I initially booted from the CD-ROM
> and did an install. On coming back up for the first time
> I got the dreaded "Read error", telling me there was a
> problem reading the boot sector.
> 
> I've been to http://www.uk.freebsd.org/search/search.html
> and searched the FAQ and handbook for
> 
> HP AND Netserver
> 
> which turned up
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html
> 
> reading these, I ended up at
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#DEDICATE
> 
> But I thought I hit pay dirt when I came across
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1642806+1645868+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-questions/19990321.freebsd-questions
> 
> According to this I install the HP utility partition, then
> install BSD without changing the boot sector. I did these
> steps, taking care that my old / was fsck'd.
> 
> That is, I chose the "leave MBR untouched" option while
> doing the disk laying out. This time, on reboot I got:
> 
> UP12: missing partition boot sector.
> 
> At which point I decided to mail the list 8).
> 
> Has anyone any idea what is (not) going on here?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Adam.
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