Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 20:32:34 -0700 From: "David Crowder" <DRCrowder@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Getting a "read error" after install Message-ID: <NDBBKAKJELMBCGJFAFLPEEKHCCAA.DRCrowder@home.com>
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I am running a Dell dimension D300 pII 300mhz, 128 ram, 4G HDD, 8G HDD Ninvida 128 video, Sound Blaster AWE 64, atapi ide CD-ROM, Standard floppy, 3Com 3C509 network card ps/2 mouse The 8G HDD is on the primary IDE with the CD as a slave the 4G HDD is the master on the secondary IDE without a slave FreeBSD 4.0 detects all of my hardware I set up my disks to be dedicated FreeBSD and included the following mounts / 200M /var 200M swap 512M /usr 7123M (whatever the rest of the 8G HDD is) /home 4000M (whatever the 4g HDD comes out to be in Megs) I did set the primary HDD as bootable The install goes fine, all packages installed. I reboot and get a black screen with "read error" in the top left corner I have gone as far to remove all hardware except 1 HDD and the CD (did that twice, one for each HDD) - same error I removed the CD - Same error I tried a whole host of different install and HDD configs - same error I have been all over the CMOS to ensure there wasn't any "Windows" type settings I have tried everything that I could think of Windows 98 worked fine on the box just prior to install. I just fdisked and reformatted the HDD's the installed windows to ensure that I didn't have a hardware error. Please help! I just installed FreeBSD to be the OS on our production Web server at work and I love it! I would really like to use this at home. Thank you, David R. Crowder Project Manager ThomComp, INC 610-834-1120 x341 dcrowder@thomcomp.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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