From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 12:19:52 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 12:19:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926D937B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:19:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 146eqv-0004Hn-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:19:46 +0000 Received: (from cliff@localhost) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eBEKJhQ02774 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:19:43 +0100 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:19:43 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.2 Installation Boot problems Message-ID: <20001214211943.A2697@buffy.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Some days ago I posted a problem about 42. installation. I tried many times to install it, all apparently successfully, but none ended up being bootable. I dedicated the whole disk to it. With "not dangeriusly dedicated" I saw nothing at all. With "dangerously deciated" I got "Read Error". I ended up installing a small Linux system and using Lilo, with success. 1 or maybe 2 other people reported the problem. I posted it in "stable", so I will try it here as well. Somebody replied to me offering to help, unfortunately I seemed to have lost his/her message. If they are out there could they contact me again. Or if anyone else hs any input on this. The PC is a very ordinary old P90, which I use as a test machine, and many installations of Linux and BSD 4.0 have worked well on it. Thanks Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message