Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:33:42 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: stanb@panix.com Cc: (FreeBSD Stable List) <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: HP Vectra 5/90 hard disk boot disaster continues! Message-ID: <XFMail.001217143342.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200012172218.RAA18955@panix3.panix.com>
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On 17-Dec-00 stanb@panix.com wrote: > This is fast aproaching ridiculous! > > This bloody &$#@$$#!! machine just doesn't want to run FreeBSD. > > Found a CD (a second one BTW the machine would see, but not read the first > one!) installed it, and created boot floppies from my 4.0 CD set. > > Booted off the CD's choose "Install Boot Manager", chose FreeBSD boot > manager, and it STILL boots up to the "F1 FreeBSD" prompt, and will only > rewatd me with angry beeps no matter what I do there. It sounds like the geometry that your BIOS is using for your hard drive doesn't match the geometry that sysinstall is using during the installation. Get into the BIOS and write down the geoemtery it has for your hard drive. Reinstall and when you are in the fdisk editor in sysinstall use 'g' to set the geometry if they do not match. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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