Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 10:02:33 -0400 From: Mark Woodson <mwoodson@wloq.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vectra XU 6/xxx Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010406095353.020ae4a0@192.168.100.3> In-Reply-To: <8766gjdu64.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> References: <Mark Yeck's message of "Wed, 04 Apr 2001 20:02:45 -0400 (EDT)"> <XFMail.010404200245.y3k@gti.net>
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At 03:26 PM 4/5/2001 -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: >Mark Yeck <y3k@gti.net> 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. > 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 As a note for anyone else who has this problem this link doesn't work. > 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"]. On a more personal note, I found (for whatever reason) the 3.4 install (CD I managed to find in the "stack") wouldn't work until I created a small DOS partition (not sure if this is a geometry problem as mentioned in the Handbook & Complete) after which it worked. Installing 4.1 on top of that not letting it touch the MBR (None, not standard) worked for me. It's been a frustrating install, but glad it's done with. Thanks to everyone on the list who gave me pointers and comments. -Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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