Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:53:38 -0500 From: David Campbell <dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <optix@nyc.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bizarre rituals to reboot Message-ID: <3AD73D22.91A7F467@mail.utexas.edu> References: <3AD72C86.C73F47F5@mail.utexas.edu> <00ac01c0c43a$581851f0$01000001@darkstar> <3AD72F6D.7371EBC9@mail.utexas.edu> <00c101c0c43c$6859a080$01000001@darkstar>
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--------------E3AA96A2A1F5D04F27930720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Progress! In a fashion... Now, I only have to make sure I power down between reboots, I don't have to do the Win98 FDisk step. I appreciate the suggestion. Anything else that you come up with is welcome. Dave "Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 I know this might a little rash, but it might work. Try > doing, from > the Win98 CD, fdisk /mbr, to remove the bootmanager and then reboot. > After that, reload the Windows CD in the drive and then remove all > the drives via fdisk and then redo the FreeBSD install. I have found > that FreeBSD acts a little wierd when it doesn't have clean drives to > work with. However, i'm not guaranteeing that this will fix the > problem, this is just what i've learned over the few years that i've > been running FreeBSD as a server operating system. - -- Jonathan M. > Slivko ~~~~ > 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 > To: Jonathan M. Slivko > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:55 PM > Subject: Re: Bizarre rituals to reboot > 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 <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 - > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use > <http://www.pgp.com>; > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; > iQA/AwUBOtcymz4aolq8K4tFEQJxZQCg/XMg5YnqQxkeDeFrhtoUSG7pKf8AoIFB > Z98Mkkv0wK4xCbbuFpNUXoIj > =KQvD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- David Campbell Sr Systems Analyst 512 475 9398 Center For Instructional Technologies The University of Texas at Austin --------------E3AA96A2A1F5D04F27930720 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Progress! In a fashion... <p>Now, I only have to make sure I power down between reboots, I don't have to do the Win98 FDisk step. <p>I appreciate the suggestion. Anything else that you come up with is welcome. <p>Dave <p>"Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Hash: SHA1</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I know this might a little rash, but it might work. Try doing, from</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>the Win98 CD, fdisk /mbr, to remove the bootmanager and then reboot.</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>After that, reload the Windows CD in the drive and then remove all</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>the drives via fdisk and then redo the FreeBSD install. I have found</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>that FreeBSD acts a little wierd when it doesn't have clean drives to</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>work with. However, i'm not guaranteeing that this will fix the</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>problem, this is just what i've learned over the few years that i've</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>been running FreeBSD as a server operating system.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- -- Jonathan M. Slivko</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>~~~~</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Jonathan M. Slivko <<a href="mailto:optix@nyc.rr.com">optix@nyc.rr.com</a>></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Systems Administrator, DataSyrge Internet Services</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Network</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Pager: (917) 388-5304</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Website: <a href="http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/">http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/</a></font></font>; <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>(PGP Key @ <a href="http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/jslivko.asc">http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/jslivko.asc</a>)</font></font>; <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>~~~~</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- ----- Original Message -----</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>From: David Campbell</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>To: Jonathan M. Slivko</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Cc: <a href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</a></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:55 PM</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Subject: Re: Bizarre rituals to reboot</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>My first install, using the installer, I deleted the existing</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>partitions, and created a single partition, that I divided into 3</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>slices (/, swap, /usr). I selected the boot manager.</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>The hard drive is a 4GB SCSI-2.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Dave</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>"Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote:</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Hash: SHA1</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>David,</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>When you first installed FreeBSD, did you fdisk the drive? Did you</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>install a boot manager? What kind of a hard drive is this machine</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>running?</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- - -- Jonathan M. Slivko</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>~~~~</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Jonathan M. Slivko <<a href="mailto:optix@nyc.rr.com">optix@nyc.rr.com</a>></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Systems Administrator, DataSyrge Internet Services</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Network</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Pager: (917) 388-5304</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Website: <a href="http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/">http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/</a></font></font>; <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>(PGP Key @ <a href="http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/jslivko.asc">http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/jslivko.asc</a>)</font></font>; <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>~~~~</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- - ----- Original Message -----</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>From: "David Campbell" <<a href="mailto:dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu">dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu</a>></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>To: <<a href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG</a>></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:42 PM</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Subject: Bizarre rituals to reboot</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> I am a newbie. After playing with an initial install of FreeBSD 4.2</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> for a little over a week, changing and modifying files to my</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> heart's</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> content, I did a clean re-install to start from a known point, at a</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> different security level than I had originally installed with. The</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> install, on a Compaq Workstation AP400 with 256MB RAM, 4GB hard</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> drive, appears to go flawlessly, regardless of how many partitions</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> or slices I create, or boot manager I use (if any). On reboot, I</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> get "Non-System disk or disk error."</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> After a couple of days wrestling with this, I have discovered that</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> if after the install, I put in a Win98 boot disk, look at the drive</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> with FDISK (making no changes, just looking at partitions), take</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> out the Win98 disk, the machine boots to FreeBSD just fine. If I</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> then reboot, I get the error. I continue to get the error on</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> reboots until I look at the drive with FDISK. At that point, the</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> boot-God is appeased, and it works fine.</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> Does anyone have any insight into what is going on with this?</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> Dave</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to <a href="mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.org">majordomo@FreeBSD.org</a></font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1><<a href="http://www.pgp.com">http://www.pgp.com</a>></font></font>; <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>iQA/AwUBOtcvKD4aolq8K4tFEQLb0QCgxoqClbbR4odm3YeWK/qsfSjSvtsAnjgb</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>coefS9Cryu5qAitG8bQrqSSg</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>=8/Ls</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>- --</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>David Campbell</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Sr Systems Analyst 512 475 9398</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Center For Instructional Technologies</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>The University of Texas at Austin</font></font> <br> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <<a href="http://www.pgp.com">http://www.pgp.com</a>></font></font>; <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>iQA/AwUBOtcymz4aolq8K4tFEQJxZQCg/XMg5YnqQxkeDeFrhtoUSG7pKf8AoIFB</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Z98Mkkv0wK4xCbbuFpNUXoIj</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>=KQvD</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----</font></font></blockquote> <pre>-- David Campbell Sr Systems Analyst 512 475 9398 Center For Instructional Technologies The University of Texas at Austin</pre> </body> </html> --------------E3AA96A2A1F5D04F27930720-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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