From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 04:26:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA18687 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM [206.171.98.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA18682 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA05270; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:26:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:26:17 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD bootup problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Today, when I did a shutdown and tried to reboot the machine, > > instead of the bootstrap coming up, it just said Read error, any ideas on > > what the problem is and how I can fix it? Thanks. > > Can you be more specific, ie where exactly it fails? Can you boot with a > boot floppy OK? How about '?' at the Boot: prompt, does that show any > files? Floppies will always work, I meant the HD. Normally, it would have that bootstrap where it would allow you to boot with options but the only thing that comes up is Read error and no message even before the brief pause normally. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]