From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 14:49: 3 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 14:49:00 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from webhost.omniresource.com (www.omniresource.com [207.170.23.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E4337B402 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by WEBHϪϪOST with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:47:17 -0600 Message-ID: From: GB/DEV - Doug Poland To: 'mark tinguely' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 4.2R Installation problem -- Read Error Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:48:41 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark said... > > > After the bios and vga boot info appears, I get a screen refresh > > and > > > > Read error > > > > as the only message. Sounds like a MBR problem? Anyone have a > > solution other than re-install? > > that could be a MBR problem. Boot from the kernel diskette, when the > wheel starts spinning, start typing the command: > > boot> ad(0,a)/kernel -s > > if it is a boot block problem on the hard disk, it should now > be booting (into single user mode via the -s flag, drop that > flag if you want to go multiuser. > > Below assumes single user mode. > > if this work, then I would check the filessytem: > > # fsck -p > > mount the root partition > > # mount -u /dev/ad0s1a / # or whatever is your partition > > reload the boot blocks: > > # disklabel -B ad0 > > --------------- > I have also seen the "ata" driver mess up with some older, > lower quality motherboard IDE controlers and had to make a > kernel using the old "wd" drivers. > > --mark tinguely. > Mark, I followed your instructions, and then rebooted, but it still won't boot off the hard drive. I was able to mount all the partitions and boot into multi-user mode and get the OS running. Is there anything else I can do to fix this? -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message