From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 16:47:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47E616A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:47:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gort.hpl.hp.com (gort.hpl.hp.com [192.6.10.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F398843D58 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:47:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhr@ballard.hpl.hp.com) Received: from ballard.hpl.hp.com (ballard.hpl.hp.com [15.144.26.39]) by gort.hpl.hp.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3BGkhon027053 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:46:44 +0100 (BST) Received: by ballard.hpl.hp.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4215193; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:46:43 +0100 (BST) From: John Hawkes-Reed Organization: The Ministry for the Prevention of Stupidity To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:46:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504111746.42804.hirez@libeljournal.com> X-HPL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the Helpdesk for more information X-HPL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-HPL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-1.153, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -0.84, AWL -0.31) X-MailScanner-From: jhr@ballard.hpl.hp.com Subject: Hp dc7100 installs 5.4-rc1 from CD but won't boot from HD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hirez@libeljournal.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:47:06 -0000 (Which I think covers the problem) Boots from CD ok, USB keyboard seems less than reliable, so I'm using a PS2 item. Running through 'standard' install appears to write data to the (SATA ICH6 controller) disk, but on reboot it sits at the F1: FreeBSD prompt beeping every ten seconds. Is there likely to be anything obvious I've missed? (Or indeed more useful data I can provide.) As a test, I installed a Debian Sarge CD. That works. -- JH-R