From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 22:22:24 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 22:22:22 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E716737B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:22:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=willow.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14Emk5-000CFZ-00; Sat, 06 Jan 2001 06:22:17 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (btvs.demon.nl [192.168.1.2]) by willow.raggedclown.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4F55D83; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 07:21:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386), from userid 500) id 9A30512BFC; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:35:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:35:45 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: GB/DEV - Doug Poland Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 4.2R Installation problem -- Read Error Message-ID: <20010105223545.A1506@buffy.raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from doug.poland@omniresources.com on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:55:37PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 02:55:37PM -0600, GB/DEV - Doug Poland wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just completed an install of 4.2-RELEASE on a Gateway 266 PII. I went > through the entire config and install without a problem until it was > time to remove the install CD and reboot. > > 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? > A few people have had this problem. The boot loader on 4.2 seems to be jinxed under certain circumstances. I have been through this exhaustively.. You have a choice: Choice 1: Select the standard mbr option as the boot method. Choice 2: Boot from CD or FD and load the newly installed kernel - then install grub, which works very well and is simple as can be to configure. Grub is in the ports. Good Luck Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message