Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:58:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417145655.1625L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980417100102.A13418@iconnect.co.ke>
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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke wrote: > I've got here a Gateway 2000, i486 66 MHz, 8 MB RAM, 515 MB IDE hard disk, > 16 bit ISA NE2000 compatible network card (ed0). I installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 > on it over FTP from another BSDI server. The whole installation process > went OK, and I used the entire hard disk for FreeBSD. However, on > completing the install, when I rebooted, the system did not boot from hard > disk. After the inital gateway 2000 prompt on screen, it gave me: > > read error Oops. I bet you specified dedicated mode for the disks; the Phoenix (and/or Award) BIOS that Gateway uses can't deal with dedicated mode disks. Reinstall FreeBSD and answer `yes' to the question `Do you want to make this disk compatible for future operating systems?'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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