From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 5 12:26:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Thanatos.Shenton.Org (a3.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2D2D37B446 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:26:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 46803 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Apr 2001 19:26:59 -0000 To: Mark Yeck Cc: Mark Woodson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vectra XU 6/xxx References: From: Chris Shenton Date: 05 Apr 2001 15:26:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: Mark Yeck's message of "Wed, 04 Apr 2001 20:02:45 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: <8766gjdu64.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Yeck writes: > I used to have a link to an article on dejanews that mentioned boot problems > with freebsd and vectra's. unfortunately, that link doesnt work anymore and i > dont remember what the fix was. It had something to do with the bios not > working with the bootloader. Wish I could help more. I know others have had a > similar problem and the answer is out there somewhere. Mark pointed me to the link a while back. Here's my response to him and how I worked around it without resorting to image hacking. (that should be "bit", not "big" below :-) --Chris From: Chris Shenton Subject: [FIX] Re: 4.2R install on HP Vectra won't boot: no bootmgr, cursor han To: Mark Yeck Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: 18 Jan 2001 10:22:36 -0500 On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:19:30 -0500 (EST), Mark Yeck said: Mark> Here's a clue I found on dejanews. Hopefully it will help. Mark> http://x69.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=700810190&CONTEXT=976477108.518324252&hitnum=2 Thanks! Seems a big hairy (grabbing boot0 images from FreeBSD-3.x, etc). As a last attempt before doing the above, I tried telling sysinstall to NOT use the normal FreeBSD boot manager, but to install the "Standard" boot manager, as it says "no boot manager". [Standard=none is a bit confusing, when the next choice is "don't touch the existing boot manager on disk"]. Anyway, the Vectra can now find the bootable FreeBSD disk, so I'm up and running. I'm not trying to use anything but FreeBSD so this is fine for me. Hopefully this note in the archives might help others. Thanks again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message