Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:47:37 -0500 (CDT) From: hirsh@skypoint.com (Roger P Johnson) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot from 'C' drive, why? Message-ID: <m0wm3eD-0001NAC@mirage.skypoint.com> In-Reply-To: <33BD13FE.1601AA74@nconnect.net> from "Randy DuCharme" at Jul 4, 97 03:17:18 pm
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> > Kelly Wiles wrote: > > > > I can not boot up from the 'C' drive any more. It use to work > > until I upgraded to 2.2. > > > > When I have the system board configured to use the 'C' drive > > first, I get a 'Read error'. > > The read error is happening because the system is going out to > > the floppy drive and I do not have a diskette in it. > > > > I can bootup under a floppy and then enter the > > sd(0,a)/kernel > > And this works fine. > > > > I have re-installed twice, tried disklabel. > > > > When I installed I choose to use the complete drive for > > FreeBSD. > > > > System configuration: > > Micron P166 > > 48 meg memory > > Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller > > Drive 1 2.5gig > > Drive 2 1.5gig SYJET > > Drive 3 CDROM 10x > > Drive 4 CDROM 6x > > > I have identical problems with the Micronics M54Pe ( EISA/PCI DUAL CPU ) > mainboards that I used to use. I have the problem with ALL versions of > FreeBSD. I'm pretty sure it's a BIOS issue. I was able to get around > it by creating a small DOS partition (5Meg) on the drive and using > booteasy. > etc. but the small DOS partition ALWAYS worked. I have the exact same problems with DEC Venturis 5133 16MB ram, but not on a Venturis 5100 16MB ram. Adaptec 2940 or 2940AU, with 1GB Seagate's gives me the 'read error' as well. In summary, after much, much, much dinging around, same machine and hard disk, an Adaptec ISA 1542 will boot it but the Adaptec PCI 2940 will not. Dig that! I still have to set up the 5133 machine. I will try the DOS partion. Puke. Roger
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