Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:42:46 -0500 From: David Campbell <dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bizarre rituals to reboot Message-ID: <3AD72C86.C73F47F5@mail.utexas.edu>
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I am a newbie. After playing with an initial install of FreeBSD 4.2 for a little over a week, changing and modifying files to my heart's content, I did a clean re-install to start from a known point, at a different security level than I had originally installed with. The install, on a Compaq Workstation AP400 with 256MB RAM, 4GB hard drive, appears to go flawlessly, regardless of how many partitions or slices I create, or boot manager I use (if any). On reboot, I get "Non-System disk or disk error." After a couple of days wrestling with this, I have discovered that if after the install, I put in a Win98 boot disk, look at the drive with FDISK (making no changes, just looking at partitions), take out the Win98 disk, the machine boots to FreeBSD just fine. If I then reboot, I get the error. I continue to get the error on reboots until I look at the drive with FDISK. At that point, the boot-God is appeased, and it works fine. Does anyone have any insight into what is going on with this? Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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