From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 17 14:58:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10247 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10147 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:58:29 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA01734; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:58:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot problem In-Reply-To: <19980417100102.A13418@iconnect.co.ke> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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