From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 12 15:58:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 059A437B505 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:58:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 24839 invoked by uid 0); 12 Apr 2001 22:58:42 -0000 Received: from spot.cc.utexas.edu (HELO mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.193.42) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 12 Apr 2001 22:58:42 -0000 Message-ID: <3AD632DC.3DBB6F40@mail.utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:57:32 -0500 From: David Campbell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: After install, "Non-System disk or disk error" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am installing FreeBSD 4.2 on a Compaq Workstation AP400 with 256MB RAM, 4GB hard drive. The install appears to go flawlessly, regardless of how many partitions I create. On reboot, I get "Non-System disk or disk error." I have tried installing with the boot manager, and without. I am setting the partition as bootable (and even trying it not set). When I boot to the CD and start the install again, it sees the partitions, and the 3 slices (/, swap, /usr). It does not see the labels. If I intercept the boot process to get a command prompt, and use lsdev, it show: disk @ 0x10918 disk0: BIOS drive A: disk0a: FFS 2MB (0-5760) disk0c: FFS 2MB (0-5760) disk1: BIOS drive B: Am I missing something incredibly basic? This machine worked fine for a week while I played around with a couple of different installs. Starting with the attempt yesterday, to start clean one last time, I have been hitting brick walls. Thanks, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message