From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 13 10:55: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B230537B50C for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:54:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 12995 invoked by uid 0); 13 Apr 2001 17:54:48 -0000 Received: from spot.cc.utexas.edu (HELO mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.193.42) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 13 Apr 2001 17:54:48 -0000 Message-ID: <3AD73D22.91A7F467@mail.utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:53:38 -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> <3AD72F6D.7371EBC9@mail.utexas.edu> <00c101c0c43c$6859a080$01000001@darkstar> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------E3AA96A2A1F5D04F27930720" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------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 > 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 > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use > 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 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:

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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
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