From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 29 20:19:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imo-m10.mx.aol.com (imo-m10.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2829337B401; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:19:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bsdguru@aol.com) Received: from Bsdguru@aol.com by imo-m10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.4.) id n.d4.b8df66a (4413); Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:19:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Bsdguru@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:19:28 EDT Subject: Re: Loader problems To: msmith@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message dated 8/29/01 7:34:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, msmith@freebsd.org writes: > > I have a hard drive with 2 versions of freebsd (4.1 and 4.2) loaded on it. > > They boot and load ok, but when 4.1 is soft-rebooted, it stops at the boot: > > > prompt and 3 strange characters are displayed (not alphanumeric)...the > second > > > > partition seems fine. Backspacing over the characters and hitting return > > manually and the machine boots normally. Both partitions are using the > BTX > > loader v1.01 > > > > Any ideas? > > Sounds like you're getting garbage in the keyboard buffer. 8( > > How new is the motherboard/BIOS? > Fairly new. Other disks work ok, and we use this motherboard on lots of systems. Its something with the setup...the 2 freebsds on a disk I think. Bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message