From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 17 7:23:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F422337B503 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 07:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com (sv.meiway.com [212.73.210.79]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id D6D8D6A906 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:23:05 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010217161803.022dc850@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:20:52 +0100 To: From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: can't boot 4.2R In-Reply-To: <018201c098f4$087fa880$6100000a@vladsempire.net> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010217131639.01ac6030@mail.Go2France.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010217134955.01b5c870@mail.Go2France.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20010217144545.026c6b80@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Are you sure that the disk itself doesn't have some proprietary compaq >bios on it? it may have Compaq "system's utilities partition" on it. There's a few cylinders I can't grab with fbsd's fdisk. >Can you boot anything else off this disk in it's new computer? Knowing it booted fbsd just fine previouosly, I haven't tried anything but freebsd in this box. good idea, I'll try to trash the disk with NT4 and then try fbsd. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message