From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 19 23:52:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gw-nl1.origin-it.com (gw-nl1.origin-it.com [193.79.128.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D8437B43E for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.de.origin-it.com (localhost.origin-it.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl1.origin-it.com with ESMTP id IAA16038; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:52:03 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from Helge.Oldach@de.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-de1.origin-it.com(172.16.188.53) by gw-nl1.origin-it.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma016025; Wed, 20 Sep 00 08:52:06 +0200 Received: from mailhub.de.origin-it.com ([130.143.166.88]) by mail.de.origin-it.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id IAA03926; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:51:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from galaxy.de.cp.philips.com (galaxy.de.cp.philips.com [130.143.166.29]) by mailhub.de.origin-it.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/hmo09aug00) with ESMTP id IAA23708; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:51:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Helge.Oldach@de.origin-it.com) Received: (from hmo@localhost) by galaxy.de.cp.philips.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/hmo14aug98) id IAA17320; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:51:48 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200009200651.IAA17320@galaxy.de.cp.philips.com> Subject: Re: 4.1 install won't boot (but 4.0 will!) In-Reply-To: <14792.10871.244054.687154@yertle.kciLink.com> from Vivek Khera at "Sep 19, 2000 11: 9:43 pm" To: khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:51:48 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: stable@freebsd.org From: Helge Oldach X-Address: ORIGIN Deutschland GmbH, Billstrasse 80, D-20539 Hamburg, Germany X-Phone: +49 40 7886 464, Fax: +49 40 7886 235, Mobile: +49 172 4515513 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vivek Khera: >>>>>> "GB" == Gregory Bond writes: >GB> This machine boots from CD and the boot floppies just fine. We >GB> can install the OS, all goes fine. (We've tried about 6 times, >GB> using various combinations of standard/quick/custom install). We >GB> are using the whole disk for FreeBSD, but not using dangerously >GB> dedicated. We have tried using the standard MBR or BootEasy. >Try the DD mode. According to my experiments this particular machine's BIOS (HP Vectra XA) does not like dangerously dedicated mode. All I've seen is the infamous "read error" message. This is even true for a very small (<540 MB) disk! If anyone has a clue on how to get it DD, please share. Helge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message