Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:54:42 -0800 (PST) From: Portie Owner <portieowner@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Non-system disk or disk error Message-ID: <20051104175442.98421.qmail@web34206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <0d4701c5df18$2c3d9650$c901a8c0@workdog>
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I am sure there is an easy solution to this but here is my problem, and it is driving me nuts. The error message on boot is "Non-system disk or disk error". I only get this message if I do a warm reboot with no power off. If I halt the system and power off and restart it boots right up. Computer is a Compaq AP500 (P-II 450mhz, 700MB Ram, Adaptec SCSI card). The system has two SCSI drives, "C:" which is at ID 1 and "D:" which is at ID 2. The OS is FreeBDS 5.4, standard installation using the FreeBSD-only boot manager (I also tried the alternate FreeBSD boot choice). No other OSs reside on the machine and I have tried to start with a clean DOS Fdisked bachine before installing FreeBSD. The PC does not have the Compaq bios partition installed but that does not seem to matter. I have not been able to upgrade the ROM BIOS on this machine, but the Compaq Diagnostics and Setup programs seem to work and report the right information about the disks. I even tried disabling floppy and CD media boot but that dodn't help either. Thanks, Portie __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
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