From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 13 9:56:32 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 2B3C437B50C for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:56:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 17240 invoked by uid 0); 13 Apr 2001 16:56:19 -0000 Received: from spot.cc.utexas.edu (HELO mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.193.42) by umbs-smtp-1 with SMTP; 13 Apr 2001 16:56:19 -0000 Message-ID: <3AD72F6D.7371EBC9@mail.utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:55:09 -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: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bizarre rituals to reboot References: <3AD72C86.C73F47F5@mail.utexas.edu> <00ac01c0c43a$581851f0$01000001@darkstar> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------D2F97D8410CFFAD6DB73C370" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------D2F97D8410CFFAD6DB73C370 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My first install, using the installer, I deleted the existing partitions, and created a single partition, that I divided into 3 slices (/, swap, /usr). I selected the boot manager. The hard drive is a 4GB SCSI-2. Dave "Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David, > > When you first installed FreeBSD, did you fdisk the drive? Did you > install a boot manager? What kind of a hard drive is this machine > running? > > - -- Jonathan M. Slivko > > ~~~~ > Jonathan M. Slivko > Systems Administrator, DataSyrge Internet Services > IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Network > Pager: (917) 388-5304 > Website: http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/ > (PGP Key @ http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/jslivko.asc) > ~~~~ > - ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Campbell" > To: > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:42 PM > Subject: Bizarre rituals to reboot > > > 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use > > iQA/AwUBOtcvKD4aolq8K4tFEQLb0QCgxoqClbbR4odm3YeWK/qsfSjSvtsAnjgb > coefS9Cryu5qAitG8bQrqSSg > =8/Ls > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- David Campbell Sr Systems Analyst 512 475 9398 Center For Instructional Technologies The University of Texas at Austin --------------D2F97D8410CFFAD6DB73C370 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My first install, using the installer, I deleted the existing partitions, and created a single partition, that I divided into 3 slices (/, swap, /usr). I selected the boot manager.

The hard drive is a 4GB SCSI-2.

Dave

"Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote:

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David,

When you first installed FreeBSD, did you fdisk the drive? Did you
install a boot manager? What kind of a hard drive is this machine
running?

- -- Jonathan M. Slivko

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Jonathan M. Slivko <optix@nyc.rr.com>
Systems Administrator, DataSyrge Internet Services
IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Network
Pager: (917) 388-5304
Website: http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/
(PGP Key @ http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/jslivko.asc)
~~~~
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "David Campbell" <dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:42 PM
Subject: Bizarre rituals to reboot

> 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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David Campbell
Sr Systems Analyst     512 475 9398 
Center For Instructional Technologies
The University of Texas at Austin
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