From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Aug 6 0:10:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gulp.org (pliers.gulp.org [204.245.54.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E3C37B61D for <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scarter@gblx.net) Received: (from scarter@localhost) by mail.gulp.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA12082; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:10:05 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scarter@gblx.net) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.gulp.org: scarter set sender to scarter@gblx.net using -f Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:10:05 -0700 From: Steve Carter <scarter@gblx.net> To: Steve Carter <scarter@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO 3.5 w/ Thinkpad 600E Message-ID: <20000806001005.B12013@gblx.net> References: <20000804211311.A602@gblx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000804211311.A602@gblx.net>; from scarter@pobox.com on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:13:11PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Turned out that my MBR was corrupted or otherwise bad ... I booted a DOS disk (v6.22 for those w/ a historical bent) and did a fdisk /mbr which recreated the MBR, reinstalled 3.5 & PAO and now I'm off .. -Steve * Steve Carter <scarter@pobox.com> [000804 21:13]: > I recently did a fresh install of 3.5-RELEASE w/ PAO on am IBM Thinkpad > 600E. This machine previously ran 3.4-RELEASE with no problems, but one > has to tinker ... > > The installation goes as usual until the reboot and then the system > doesn't find a boot ldr or kernel. During the installation I did manually > make the partition bootable, but still it doesn't boot. > > Anyone got any ideas? > > -Steve > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message