From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 13 9:43:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb1-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A05DD37B506 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 11350 invoked by uid 0); 13 Apr 2001 16:43:55 -0000 Received: from spot.cc.utexas.edu (HELO mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.193.42) by umbs-smtp-1 with SMTP; 13 Apr 2001 16:43:55 -0000 Message-ID: <3AD72C86.C73F47F5@mail.utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:42:46 -0500 From: David Campbell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bizarre rituals to reboot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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