From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Apr 28 19:10:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A0314BFC for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:10:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id LAA07451; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:10:28 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3727BF16.14A8188A@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:08:22 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Samuelson , bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on HP Vectra VL 6 Series 7 DT References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ivan Samuelson wrote: > > Well, I brought in another drive that I scavanged from my old hardware pile at > home and put it into the Vectra VL. No dice. Apparently, it's a BIOS or disk > controller problem with the Vectra VL 6 Series 7 DT computers or else, I have a > faulty PC. I guess I'm out of luc and will have to purchase a CDROM that allows > me to boot off of because I have no other option at this time unless someone > else has a solution. The BIOS is a Phoenix 6.0.0 BIOS, so I'm not sure if that's > part of the problem or not. I'm thinking of reflashing the BIOS with a newer > version. > > I hope this problem gets fixed in the next release if it IS a FreeBSD problem. Did I not reply? Mmmm... I thought either Mike Smith or Robert Nordier would follow up on this. Anyway, at some point there was such a problem with the loader (well, actually, the BIOS). It should *NOT* be a problem with present versions of it. Could you try download the installations disks for a recent stable snapshot? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message