From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 20 18:50:20 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 18:50:17 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D7137B698 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from jamestown.enteract.com (207-229-151-127.d.enteract.com [207.229.151.127]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA80785 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:50:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm@enteract.com) Received: by jamestown.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA05625 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:48:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm) From: James McNaughton Reply-To: jtm63@enteract.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2nd try Vectra 5/900 total failure to get to boot off of hard disk Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:45:02 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <200012171400.JAA20646@panix2.panix.com> In-Reply-To: <200012171400.JAA20646@panix2.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00122020485802.03578@jamestown.enteract.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: jtm@enteract.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a shot in the dark, but do you hit "F1" during boot to get to the bios setup? This is how it is on my computer and I have to first hit "F5" (which is for the second disk) and then hit "F2" for FreeBSD. Jim On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, you wrote: > I'm going to try this again, since clearly I did not make my original > message cleat. A number of people have written me, that cleary did not > understand the problem, so I must have written a poor problem description. > > Thanks for the patience. > > I have a HP Vectra CL5/90 that I am totaly unable to get to boot off the > hard disk. I have tried installing from the 4.1 floppies viai ftp. All > seems to go well, the hard drive (20G) is proeprly recofgnized, and the > install proceds normaly. I habe choosen to _NOT_ use "dabgerously > dedicated" I have partioned the drie as follows: > > 1. / (150M) > 2. swap (200M) > 3. /var (450M) > 4. /usr (remainder) > > Since I have only used dangerously dedicated mode in the padt, and since I > am using a custom setup, i may be making an error here. What if any slices, > do I need to mark as bootable by hand? > > Since my original atempt at this failed, and since I was pointed to an > article reference a problem with the boot0 code at 1.2 and newer not > working withe some HP Vectras, I repeated the above install. At the end, > before reboooting, I did the following: > > 1. ftp /boot/boo0 from a workign 3.4 system to /tmp > 2. boot0cfg -B -b /tmp/booot0 ada > > At this point in time, the machine boots to the "F1 FreeBSS" prompt. Howver > any key I hit, including F1 abd return, just results in an angry beep. > > This machine has many settings in the BIOS for hard disk setup, transfer > mode, PIO mode etc. that I do not understand. I also do not understnad the > boot sequence on FreebSD. > > I have been fighting this machine for ver 2 weeks at this poiny in time and > am QUIE frustraded. > > Could anyone take the time to help eduacte me on what it will take to ge > this amchien booting off the ard drive? > > Thansk for you patience. > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@panix.com 843-745-3154 > Charleston SC > -- > "Be careful not to step > in the Microsoft." -- John Denker > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message