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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:11:16 -0700
From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net>
To: David Campbell <dcampbell@mail.utexas.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Bizarre rituals to reboot
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If SCAM support is enabled on the SCSI controller, try
turning it off.

[RC]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:42:46AM -0500, David Campbell wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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