From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 17:33: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.pa.home.com [24.12.106.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5923F37B679 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 17:32:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DRCrowder@home.com) Received: from cc746196a ([24.4.200.196]) by mail.rdc2.pa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20000525003246.QEUK10629.mail.rdc2.pa.home.com@cc746196a> for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 17:32:46 -0700 Reply-To: "David R Crowder" From: "David Crowder" To: Subject: Getting a "read error" after install Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 20:32:34 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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