From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 14 17:18:10 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 17:18:08 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.gti.net (apollo.gti.net [199.171.27.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483DA37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:18:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from gti.net (ts5m-pool0-132.gti.net [208.216.126.132]) by apollo.gti.net (mail) with ESMTP id 4B277145A3B for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:18:05 -0500 (EST) Sender: mark@gti.net Message-ID: <3A39711D.59729409@gti.net> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:17:19 +0000 From: Mark Yeck X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; OpenBSD 2.5 sparc) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2 Installation Boot problems References: <20001214211943.A2697@buffy.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a similiar problem. Upgrading the motherboard BIOS took care of it. I was using an intel al440lx motherboard. I dont know if that's your problem, but its worth looking into. -mark Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message